Journal of Molecular Biology (JMB) provides high quality, comprehensive and broad coverage in all areas of molecular biology. The journal publishes original scientific research papers that provide mechanistic and functional insights and report a significant advance to the field. The journal encourages the submission of multidisciplinary studies that use complementary experimental and computational approaches to address challenging biological questions.

Research areas include but are not limited to:
Biomolecular interactions, signaling networks, systems biology
Cell cycle, cell growth, cell differentiation
Cell death, autophagy
Cell signaling and regulation
Chemical biology
Computational biology, in combination with experimental studies
DNA replication, repair, and recombination
Development, regenerative biology, mechanistic and functional studies of stem cells
Epigenetics, chromatin structure and function
Gene expression
Receptors, channels, and transporters
Membrane processes
Cell surface proteins and cell adhesion
Methodological advances, both experimental and theoretical, including databases
Microbiology, virology, and interactions with the host or environment
Microbiota mechanistic and functional studies
Nuclear organization
Post-translational modifications, proteomics
Processing and function of biologically important macromolecules and complexes
Molecular basis of disease
RNA processing, structure and functions of non-coding RNAs, transcription
Sorting, spatiotemporal organization, trafficking
Structural biology
Synthetic biology
Translation, protein folding, chaperones, protein degradation and quality control


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Since 1959, JMB is ensuring some basic principles in the services it provides to all authors:
Fast-track option of time-sensitive research articles (please consult the Guide for Authors for details).
Anti-scooping policy: if a competitor paper has been published while yours is under peer-review in JMB, that will not affect the editorial outcome.
All editorial decisions are made by active scientists who are leading experts in the field.
Manuscripts are reviewed by leading experts in the field. JMB also supports mentoring of early career researchers in peer-review (please consult our VolunPeers program).
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Editor-in-Chief
Peter Wright
Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, U.S.A.Email Peter Wright
Scientific Editors
Hélène Hodak
Elsevier Inc Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MA 02139, United States Email Hélène Hodak
Bilge San
Elsevier Inc Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MA 02139, United States Email Bilge San
Denise Wells
Elsevier Inc Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MA 02139, United States Email Denise Wells
Founding Editor
Sir John Kendrew †
Associate Editors
Anna M. Pyle
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Structure, folding and function of long noncoding RNAs, molecular mechanism of RNA helicase proteins and RNA-triggered mechanical devices
Sheena E. Radford
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Protein folding and misfolding mechanisms
Michael J.E. Sternberg
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom Bioinformatics, systems biology, computational biology, webservers
Michael F. Summers
University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States Structural biology, RNA, proteins, structure, retroviruses, HIV
Moshe Yaniv
Institute Pasteur, Paris, France Chromatin, epigenetic and gene expression; oncogenic viruses and cancer; cell growth control
Editorial Board Members
James M. Berger
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States DNA replication, nucleic acid-dependent motors, chromosome organization and topology
Philip C. Bevilacqua
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States RNA enzymology and structural genomics
Johannes Buchner
Technical University of Munich Department of Chemistry, Garching, Germany Molecular chaperones and protein quality control
Rita Casadio
University Hospital of Bologna Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, Bologna, ItalyComputational biology, bioinformatics, functional genomics, structural bioinformatics, machine learning, deep learning, membrane proteins, protein stability, protein-protein interaction, SNP annotation.
Eric Cascales
Mediterranean Microbiology Institute, Marseille, France Bacterial secretion, Protein export, Protein transport, Bacterial cell envelope, Bacterial communities.
Eric O. Freed
National Cancer Institute Cancer and Developmental Biology Laboratory, Frederick, Maryland, United States Virology, assembly and release of HIV-1/retroviruses
Judith Frydman
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States Molecular chaperones, chaperone networks, protein folding in cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, ribosome biogenesis
Mónika Fuxreiter
University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary Computational biology, intrinsically disordered proteins, protein dynamics, structure-function relationship
Ruben L. Gonzalez
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States Ribosome structure and function, mechanism of protein synthesis, single-molecule biophysics
Max Gottesman
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States Transcription elongation regulation in E. coli
Patrick R. Griffin
Scripps Research Institute Department of Molecular Medicine, Jupiter, Florida, United States Metabolic control of inflammation and immunity, structural and chemical biology of enzymes and receptors, H/D exchange mass spectrometry
Mitchell Guss
The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Structural biology, metalloproteins
Ian B. Holland
Paris-Sud University, Orsay, France Microbiology, ABC transporters, bacterial protein translocation, microbial communities, signal transduction
Barry Honig
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States Computational and theoretical methods to study the structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids and membranes, software tools
Gerhard Hummer
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics Department of Theoretical Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Theory and molecular simulation, protein dynamics
Urs Jenal
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland Molecular basis of chronic bacterial signaling and infections in humans, cGMP
John E. Johnson, PhD
Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States Virus structure and assembly, cryo-EM
Charalampos G. Kalodimos
Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States Molecular chaperones, protein kinases, protein allostery, type III Secretion in bacteria
Achillefs Kapanidis
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Transcription, DNA repair, protein-DNA interactions, single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy
Amy Keating
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesProtein-protein interactions, protein engineering and design, computational structural biology
Sepideh Khorasanizadeh
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Epigenetic mechanisms, transcriptional regulation, therapeutics discovery with small molecules
Shohei Koide
NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER, New York, New York, United States Protein design and engineering, drug discovery, protein-protein interactions, cellular signaling, structural biology, synthetic biology
Richard Kriwacki
Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, United States Cell division and apoptosis, Intrinsically disordered proteins, signal transduction
Gabriel C. Lander, PhD
Scripps Research, Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, San Diego, California, United States Cryo-EM, AAA+ motors
Edward A. Lemke
Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
Karolin Luger
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States Chromatin structure and dynamics, molecular biophysics, proteins and enzymology, structural biology
Sascha Martens
Max F Perutz Laboratories GmbH, Wien, Austria Autophagy
Anthony Maxwell
John Innes Centre Department of Biological Chemistry, Norwich, United KingdomStructure and function of DNA topoisomerases, antibiotic and herbicide development
Daniel L. Minor
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States Structure, chemistry, mechanisms and function of ion channels
Anna Panchenko
Queen's University School of Medicine, Kingston, Ontario Computational and hybrid approaches to study protein interactions, chromatin and nucleosome dynamics
Bert Poolman
University of Groningen Department of Biology, Haren, Netherlands Synthetic biology, enzymology, membrane biology, transport, signal transduction
Georg E. Schulz
University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Membrane protein x-ray crystallography; structure, function and mechanism of enzymes and other proteins; protein engineering
James R. Sellers
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States Structure, function, and regulation of myosins; single molecule microscopy
Louise Serpell
University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Structure and function of amyloidogenic proteins; neurodegenerative diseases
Konstantin Severinov
Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States Transcription initiation and regulation in bacteria, RNA polymerases, bacteriophage development, temporal regulation of gene expression
Feng Shao
National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China Inflammasome, innate immunity and cell death
Yigong Shi
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China apoptosis structural biology.Structural mechanisms of macromolecular machineries, apoptotic pathways, proteasome
Ichio Shimada
The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan Structural biology of membrane receptors and ion channels, NMR
Sachdev Sidhu
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Antibody engineering, protein engineering, phage display technology, protein-protein interactions
Titia Sixma
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, NetherlandsStructural biology of DNA repair, ubiquitin and SUMO modification, chromatin remodeling
Arne Skerra
Technical University of Munich Chair of Biological Chemistry, Freising, Germany Protein engineering and design, biological chemistry
Thomas Smith
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTON, Galveston, Texas, United States Structural biology, cryo-EM, X-ray
Igor Stagljar
University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Cell signalling, membrane transport, protein-protein interactions, proteomics, systems biology
Kevin Struhl
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes
Dylan J. Taatjes
University of Colorado Boulder Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Boulder, Colorado, United States Structure and mechanisms of eukaryotic transcription machinery
Daniel S. Tawfik
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Structure, mechanism and evolution of enzymes
Sarah A. Teichmann
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, UK Transcriptional regulatory networks, gene expression regulation and protein complex assembly
Ronald Wetzel
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Amyloids, protein aggregation, neurodegenerative diseases
Sarah A. Woodson
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States RNA folding, ribosome assembly, RNA-chaperone interactions
Nieng Yan, PhD
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States Membrane transporters, mechanisms of substrate recognition and transport
Mingjie Zhang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong KongStructural biology of neuronal signaling complex organization and regulation; protein complexes governing cell polarity; screening and development of small molecules with therapeutic potentials
Guest Editors
Gaya Amarasinghe
Washington University in Saint Louis Department of Pathology and Immunology, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Srinivasan Chandrasegaran
Johns Hopkins University Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Edward T. Chouchani
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Ünal Coskun
TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Carolyn Coyne
Christopher Dowson
University of Warwick School of Life Sciences, Coventry, United Kingdom
Rick Fishel
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Michael Gale (Jr.)
University of Washington Department of Immunology, Seattle, Washington, United States
Ulrich Gerland
Technical University of Munich Department of Physics, Garching, Germany
Dirk Görlich
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Department of Cellular Logistics, Göttingen, Germany
Suckjoon Jun
University of California San Diego Division of Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, United States
Kirsten Jung
Ludwig Maximilians University Munich Institute of Systematic Biology and Mycology, Munchen, Germany
Shabaana Khader
Washington University in Saint Louis Department of Molecular Microbiology, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Timothy Lu
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Dept. of Biological Engineering, Synthetic Biology Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Andreas Martin
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
Anthony Maxwell
John Innes Centre Department of Biological Chemistry, Norwich, United Kingdom
Julio Sampaio
Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Christian Spahn
Charite University Hospital Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Jim Spencer
University of Bristol School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Bristol, United Kingdom
Jörg Stülke
Georg-August University Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Gottingen, Germany
Daniel Wilson
University of Hamburg Department of Chemistry, Hamburg, Germany
Marat Yusupov
University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France