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The Journal of Molecular Biology covers the following research areas:
- 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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