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Amino Acids publishes contributions from all fields of amino acid and protein research: analysis, separation, synthesis, biosynthesis, cross linking amino acids, racemization/enantiomers, modification of amino acids as phosphorylation, methylation, acetylation, glycosylation and nonenzymatic glycosylation, new roles for amino acids in physiology and pathophysiology, biology, amino acid analogues and derivatives, polyamines, radiated amino acids, peptides, stable isotopes and isotopes of amino acids. Applications in medicine, food chemistry, nutrition, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurochemistry, pharmacology, excitatory amino acids are just some topics to be listed. We also encourage the submission of papers of interdisciplinary borderlines.
Fields of interest: Biochemistry, food chemistry, nutrition, neurology, psychiatry, pharmacology, nephrology, gastroenterology, microbiology

Editor-in-Chief
Ellen I. Closs
Department of Pharmacology
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Founding Editor
G. Lubec, Vienna, Austria
Review Editor
J. D. Wade, Melbourne, Australia

Editors
APPLIED SCIENCES

Food Chemistry
G. Wu, College Station, TX, USA

Nutrition
F. Blachier, Paris, France
L.J.C. van Loon, Maastricht, The Netherlands
R. Waterman, Miles City, MT, USA

Toxicology
A. M. Marini, Bethesda, MD, USA 

BIOINFORMATICS

D. Frishman, Freising, Germany
S. C. E. Tosatto, Padua, Italy

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
L. Sinclair, Dundee, UK

Animal Physiology
F. Bazer, College Station, TX, USA
Microbiology
J. González López, Granada, Spain
S. Stuchlík, Bratislava, Slovakia
Plant Physiology
H. Hesse, Potsdam, Germany

CELL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Amino Acid Oxidation
D. Bartolini, Perugia, Italy
Biosynthesis & Metabolism
J. Broos, Groningen, The Netherlands
S. Gross, New York, NY, USA

Enzymes
C. Schiene-Fischer, Halle/Saale, Germany

Phosphorylation of Amino Acids
K. Barnouin, London, UK
Post-translational Modification
I. Matić, Cologne, Germany
M.H. Park, Bethesda, MD, USA

Signal Transduction
V. Parpura, Birmingham, AL, USA

Sulfur containing Amino Acids
H. Jakubowski, Newark, NJ, USA 

Taurine
S.W. Schaffer, Mobile, AL, USA

Transport
D. Zilberstein, Haifa, Israel

CHEMICAL/PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Analytical Chemistry
D. Tsikas, Hannover, Germany

Medicinal & Pharmaceutical Chemistry
F. Erdmann, Halle/Saale, Germany
T. Langer, Vienna, Austria
J. Pietzsch, Dresden, Germany

Peptides
F. Albericio, Barcelona, Spain
M. S. Palma, São Paulo, Brazil
J. D. Wade, Melbourne, Australia

Protein Structure & Conformation
A.G. de Brevern, Paris, France
S. Dai, Denver, CO, USA
M. Denzel, Cologne, Germany
P. Kursula, Oulu, Finland
Y. Su, Kenilworth, NJ, USA

Polyamines and Transglutaminases
E. Agostinelli, Rome, Italy
S. Beninati, Rome, Italy

Synthesis
E.R.P. González, Presidente Prudente, SP, Brazil
W. Maison, Hamburg, Germany
P. Meffre, Nimes, France
V. A. Soloshonok, Donostia - San Sebastián, Spain 

GENETICS
M. Selbach, Berlin, Germany 

MEDICAL BIOLOGY

Ethnomedicine
J. Metcalf, Jackson, WY, USA
Medical Applications
S. Chen, Bethesda, MD, USA

Molecular Imaging
Z. Cheng, Stanford, CA, USA

Molecular Oncology & Cancer
G.J. Peters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J.M. Phang, Frederick, MD, USA
B.C. Yoo, Goyang, South Korea 

NEUROSCIENCES
G. Lubec, Vienna, Austria

Behaviour
M. Engelmann, Magdeburg, Germany
P. Popik, Krakow, Poland 
C. T. Wotjak, Munich, Germany

Brain Injury
H. S. Sharma, Uppsala, Sweden
Excitatory Amino Acids
V. Bolshakov, Belmont, MA, USA

Neuropharmacology
T. Harkany, Stockholm, Sweden and Vienna, Austria
F. Nyberg, Uppsala, Sweden

Neurophysiology/neuronal signaling
I. Greger, Cambridge, UK
P. Rondard, Montpellier, France

Psychiatry and neurology
K. Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan



PROTEINS

Interaction Proteomics
K.W. Li, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Metalloproteins
P. Fechter, Illkirch, France
Proteomics
P. Beltran-Alvarez, Hull, UK
M. Hubbard, Melbourne, Australia
J. Marshal, Toronto, ON, Canada
J.R. Wisniewski, Martinsried, Germany

Systems Biology
P. R. Jungblut, Berlin, Germany
J. Peng, Memphis, TN, USA