The Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility has as its main aim the publication of original research which bears on either the excitation and contraction of muscle, the analysis of any one of the processes involved therein, the processes underlying contractility and motility of animal and plant cells, the toxicology and pharmacology related to contractility, or the formation, dynamics and turnover of contractile structures in muscle and non-muscle cells. Studies describing the impact of pathogenic mutations in genes encoding components of contractile structures in humans or animals are welcome, provided they offer mechanistic insight into the disease process or the underlying gene function. The policy of the Journal is to encourage any form of novel practical study whatever its specialist interest, as long as it falls within this broad field. Theoretical essays are welcome provided that they are concise and suggest practical ways in which they may be tested. Manuscripts reporting new mutations in known disease genes without validation and mechanistic insight will not be considered. It is the policy of the journal that cells lines, hybridomas and DNA clones should be made available by the developers to any qualified investigator. Submission of a manuscript for publication constitutes an agreement of the authors to abide by this principle.           


Full-length Reviews and short News and Views items will also be published; these will normally be commissioned, but may also be submitted to the Editors. Book Reviews, Abstracts from and reports of meetings and other items will be published at the discretion of the Editors. All publication will be in English, and it is the responsibility of contributors to ensure that their text is comprehensible.

Editor in Chief:
Mathias Gautel
Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics,
Kings College London, England, UK

Executive Editors:

Christopher C. Ashley
University of Oxford, UK

Elisabeth Ehler
Randall Centre of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London, UK

Steven Marston
National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK

Kazuhiro Oiwa
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Kobe, Japan

Michelle Peckham
School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, UK

Avril V. Somlyo
Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics, School of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, USA



Honorary Editors
C. Bagshaw, J. Spudich, E. Taylor, R.T. Tregear, D.R. Trentham, J.M. Squire



Editorial Board:

Guy M. Benian, Emory University, Atlanta GA, USA
Sanford .I. Bernstein, San Diego State University, San Diego CA, USA 
Carsten G. Bönnemann, NIH, Bethesda MD, USA 
Thomas Braun, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany 
Lucie Carrier, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendrof, Hamburg, Germany
Olivier Cazorla, University of Montpellier, France
Lynne M. Coluccio, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA, USA
Christine Cremo, University of Nevada, Reno NV, USA 
Robert Cross, University of Warwick, Coventry, England, UK 
Kristina Djinovic-Carugo, Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna Biocenter, Vienna, Austria 
Roberto Dominguez, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA
Thomas T. Egelhoff, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH, USA
Velia M. Fowler, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA, USA 
Clara Franzini-Armstrong, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA 
Norio Fukuda, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Ying Ge, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, USA 
Michael Geeves, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, UK
Carol C. Gregorio, College of Medicine, University of Arizona Health Sciences, Tucson AZ, USA
Kaomei Guan, TU Dresden, Germany 
John A. Hammer III, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda MD, USA
David Hartshorne, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ, USA 
Malcolm Irving, King's College London, London, UK 
Shin'ichi Ishiwata, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 
Neil Kad, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, UK 
Masataka Kawai, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA, USA 
Nigel G. Laing, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Nedlands WA, Australia
Graham D. Lamb, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 
Lars Larsson, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 
William J. Lehman, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA, USA 
Wolfgang A. Linke, University of Munster, Germany 
Laura Machesky, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK 
Alf Mansson, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden 
Justin E. Molloy, The Francis Crick Institute, London, England, UK
Jeffrey R. Moore, Boston University, Boston MA, USA 
Richard L. Moss, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, USA 
Kathryn H. Myburgh, Stellenbosch University, South Africa 
E.Michael Ostap, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, USA 
Stefan Raunser, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany
Maria Jolanta Redowicz, Nencki Institue of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland 
Charles Redwood, University of Oxford, England, UK
Jeffrey Robbins, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati OH, USA 
Stefano Schiaffino, University of Padova, Italy 
Frank Schnorrer, CNRS, UMR 7288, Aix-Marseille University, France
Vladimir P. Shirinsky, Northwestern University, Chicago IL, USA 
John C. Sparrow, University of York, England, UK 
D. George Stephenson, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 
Chiara Tesi, University of Florence, Italy
Pieter P. de Tombe, Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago IL, USA 
Bjarne Udd, University of Helsinki, Finland 
Jolanda van der Velden, VUMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Claudia Veigel, Ludwig-Maximillians University of Munich, Germany
Jim O. Vigoreaux, University of Vermont, Burlington VT, USA 
David M. Warshaw, University of Vermont, Burlington VT, USA 
Dominic Wells, Royal Veterinary College, London, England, UK