Scilight Press

Aims:

Ubiquitylation & Atg8ylation (U&A) is a gold open access, peer-reviewed journal that aims to provide a premier forum for a broad coverage of research in the field of modifications of proteins and membranes. The primary focus is on ubiquitin-like molecules (Ubiquitin, Atg8s, SUMO, NEDD8, ISG15, ATG12, UFM1, FAT10, and URM1) whereas other post-translational protein modifications and membrane modifications and remodeling are also of high interest to the journal. The impetus for the creation of U&A comes from the ongoing developments in biology showing that membranes, just like proteins, undergo covalent modifications with many biological outputs, opening a new and growing field of study. However, U&A aims to be a broad scientific home for the study of any type of biological system that utilizes ubiquitin, Atg8s, or other ubiquitin-like molecules.

Scope:

The U&A journal invites fundamental biochemical, cell biological, structural, bioinformatic, theoretical, and translational articles reporting data, concepts, literature analyses, and scientific news.

In addition to conventional articles reporting positive findings, U&A also welcomes statistically valid standalone negative findings that often cannot find a venue for publications but are of significance and need to be disseminated. U&A is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.

Article formats:

Original Research Articles, Brief Reports, Review Articles, Perspectives, U&A Points (short summaries of a publication in a top tier journal), SND Reports (Standalone Negative Data reports), U&A News and Views, Theories and Hypotheses.