About this Research Topic
The global effort to offset our reliance on fossil fuels is critical to sustaining an environment for living organisms. The Life Sciences field is well equipped to support this effort using biologics in renewable bioenergy production. In addition, the net carbon output of renewable resources should be neutralized. To efficiently employ organisms such as photosynthetic algae or plants in biofuel production, macro-molecular mapping of the key signalling pathways necessary to enrich biofuel production and storage must be accomplished.
These pathways involve a multitude of interactions and nodes where intervention might yield improved energy production. Often, the nodes in a pathway can be identified but the molecular structures and specific interactions of these molecules within the context of a cellular environment can be overlooked. Joining structural biology techniques can provide a more complete picture of size, shape, and interactions amongst macromolecules. This information combined with computational methods can identify regions within macromolecules that can be modified to improve yields in biofuel production and identify ways to neutralize the carbon output.
Methods such as Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS), Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS), X-ray footprinting (XFP), X-ray Crystallography, Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (CryoEM) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) are all suited to measuring protein-protein interactions, membrane proteins and phase separated species.
Our objective is to present structural biology techniques within the Bioenergy/Biofuel
production field, particularly studies that employ SAXS, SANS, XFP, X-ray & neutron Crystallography, CryoEM and NMR.
Submissions should bring these methods together and emphasize results that answer key questions about protein-protein interactions involved in signalling pathways, membrane proteins, or phase separated systems that impact the production of biological based renewable energy and pathways that enhance carbon extraction from the environment. This will serve to act as a resource for other members of the bioenergy/renewable energy fields to employ structural biology methods within their respective focus areas.
We are inviting papers that include results using structural biology techniques to observe novel interactions within critical signalling pathways of photosynthetic organisms (such as plant, algae) that support the development of biofuel production. Topics may include:
• Methods in SA(X/N)S, XFP, NMR, CryoEM, X-ray & Neutron Crystallography
• Membrane proteins involved in signalling pathways
• Phase Separation
• Protein-protein interactions/ Protein-ligand interactions
• Computational Modelling of solution-based techniques
• Industry-based studies
• Methods for biofuel synthesis, and optimization, e.g. RSM, Taguchi method, Microwave method, Ultrasonic methods, Supercritical fluid method, Enzymatic method, etc.
These pathways involve a multitude of interactions and nodes where intervention might yield improved energy production. Often, the nodes in a pathway can be identified but the molecular structures and specific interactions of these molecules within the context of a cellular environment can be overlooked. Joining structural biology techniques can provide a more complete picture of size, shape, and interactions amongst macromolecules. This information combined with computational methods can identify regions within macromolecules that can be modified to improve yields in biofuel production and identify ways to neutralize the carbon output.
Methods such as Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS), Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS), X-ray footprinting (XFP), X-ray Crystallography, Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (CryoEM) and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) are all suited to measuring protein-protein interactions, membrane proteins and phase separated species.
Our objective is to present structural biology techniques within the Bioenergy/Biofuel
production field, particularly studies that employ SAXS, SANS, XFP, X-ray & neutron Crystallography, CryoEM and NMR.
Submissions should bring these methods together and emphasize results that answer key questions about protein-protein interactions involved in signalling pathways, membrane proteins, or phase separated systems that impact the production of biological based renewable energy and pathways that enhance carbon extraction from the environment. This will serve to act as a resource for other members of the bioenergy/renewable energy fields to employ structural biology methods within their respective focus areas.
We are inviting papers that include results using structural biology techniques to observe novel interactions within critical signalling pathways of photosynthetic organisms (such as plant, algae) that support the development of biofuel production. Topics may include:
• Methods in SA(X/N)S, XFP, NMR, CryoEM, X-ray & Neutron Crystallography
• Membrane proteins involved in signalling pathways
• Phase Separation
• Protein-protein interactions/ Protein-ligand interactions
• Computational Modelling of solution-based techniques
• Industry-based studies
• Methods for biofuel synthesis, and optimization, e.g. RSM, Taguchi method, Microwave method, Ultrasonic methods, Supercritical fluid method, Enzymatic method, etc.
Keywords: SAXS, SANS, XFP, renewable biofuel, plants, protein-protein interaction
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
