Structure, Function and Interactions

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules is an established international journal of research into chemical and biological aspects of all natural macromolecules.It presents the latest findings of studies on the molecular structure and properties of proteins, macromolecular carbohydrates, glycoproteins, proteoglycans, lignins, biological poly-acids, and nucleic acids. These findings must be new and novel rather than a repeat of earlier or analogous published work. The scope includes biological activities and interactions, molecular associations, chemical and biological modifications, and functional properties. Papers on related model systems, structural conformational studies, theoretical developments and new analytical techniques are also welcome. All papers are required to focus primarily on at least one named biological macromolecule. This naming should appear in the title, the abstract and the text of the paper.

Examples of papers which are not appropriate for International Journal of Biological Macromolecules include:
papers where the biological macromolecule has not been characterized by modern analytical techniques (including molecular weight) rather than historical methods. e.g. colorimetric assays.
papers which focus on biological, physiological and pharmacological aspects of non-macromolecules attached to, or mixed with, biological macromolecules.
papers on the materials science of biocomposites where there is no mention of any specific biological macromolecule.
papers where the structure or role of the biological macromolecule is not the major proportion of the study.
routine studies of extraction of macromolecules without purification and characterization of the extracted molecule.
applications of macromolecules where the structure of the macromolecule is completely unknown.
papers where the molecular weight of the biological molecule is less than five thousand.
paper which are majorly about clinical studies and animal trials, where a biological macromolecule is not the biologically active agent, and/or the biological macromolecule is not the major focus of the study.

Regular Papers
Review Papers

Editors in Chief
Aichun Dong
University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado, United States
John F. Kennedy
Chembiotech Laboratories Ltd, Tenbury Wells, United Kingdom
Editors
Maurice Collins
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Tao Jiang
Institute of Biophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Rizwan Khan
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Jianshu Li
Sichuan University, College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Department of Biomedical Polymers & Artificial Organs, Chengdu, China
Yangchao Luo
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States
Ian Sims
Victoria University of Wellington Ferrier Research Institute, Wellington, New Zealand
Xiaoxiong Zeng
Nanjing Agricultural University College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Editorial Board
Terin Adali
Near Eastern University, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Lefkosia, Cyprus
Saphwan Al-Assaf
Wrexham Glyndwr University, Wrexham, United Kingdom
Tsutomu Arakawa
Alliance Protein Laboratories, San Diego, California, United States
Walther Burchard
University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Richard Haser
Institute for the Biology and Chemistry of Proteins, Lyon, France
Yukio Imanishi
Nara Institute Of Science And Technology Graduate School of Materials Science, Ikoma, Japan
Nazrul Islam, PhD
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Rangasamy Jayakumar
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Kochi, India
Haroon Khan, BPharm, MPhil, PhD
Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan Department of Pharmacy, Mardan, Pakistan
Boris Kurganov
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskva, Russian Federation
Jian-Ping Luo
Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China
Mohsen Miraftab
University of Bolton, Bolton, United Kingdom
Ali Moosavi-Movahedi
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Vic Morris
Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich, United Kingdom
Parmjit Panesar
Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, India
Evaristo Peggion
University of Padua, Padova, Italy
Juan Subirana
Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Tomohiko Suzuki
Kochi University, Kochi, Japan
Chi Wu
Chinese University of Hong Kong Department of Chemistry, New Territories, Hong Kong
Hai-Meng Zhou
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China