Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (ISSN 1471-0080) is a leading monthly review journal (Impact Factor for 2004 of 33.17) published by Nature Publishing Group. As its title suggests, it covers a broad range of topics and helps to combine two distinct disciplines: in its traditional sense, ‘molecular biology’ refers to study of the macromolecules essential to life [e.g nucleic acids and proteins]; the field of cell biology is a natural extension of this, integrating what we know at the molecular level into an understanding of processes and interactions at the cellular level. By combining both fields it is possible to understand how cells divide, grow, communicate and die.

The scope of the journal includes:

Bioenergetics (photosynthesis, cellular respiration, organelle biochemistry)
Cell death (apoptosis, necrosis)
Cell signalling (signalling cascades, ion channels, gap junctions)
Cell growth and division (cancer, cell cycle, cytokinesis)
Chromosome biology (chromosome structure, translocations, chromatin, transposons)
Cytoskeletal dynamics (cell motility, molecular motors, actin, microtubules, intermediate filaments)
Developmental cell biology (asymmetric cell division, stem cells, developmental signalling, differentiation)
Gene expression (transcription, splicing, RNA stability, translation, circadian rhythms)
Membrane dynamics (membrane organization, endocytosis, exocytosis, organelle biogenesis)
Nuclear transport (import and export of molecules to and from the cell nucleus)
Nucleic-acid metabolism (DNA repair, recombination and DNA replication)
Plant cell biology
Protein structure and metabolism (structure-function relationships, quality control, post-translational modification, folding, protein translocation and protein degradation)