Thioredoxin and glutaredoxin systems antioxidants special issue

The special issue on Thioredoxin and Glutaredoxin systems (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ antioxidants/special_issues/Thioredoxin_and_Glutaredoxin_Systems) was initiated in response to solicitations from Antioxidants after discussing with colleagues at two successive redox meetings sponsored by European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and held in July 2017 in Moscow/St. Petersburg (http://redox.vub.ac.be/events/embo-redox-biology-conference.html) and in September of the same year in San Feliu de Guixols (Spain) (http://meetings.embo.org/event/17-thiol-ox). We could then submit the idea to long time collaborators and redox friends but also to other colleagues with whom we had the chance to get in touch with at these meetings. In general, although Antioxidants is a rather recent creation and its credentials were at the time not so well known, the idea of participating in a special issue was very well received and many of the contacted colleagues have answered positively. Of course, as our background is in plant sciences, this special issue mostly contains papers dealing with oxygenic phototrophs but other experimental model organisms are also addressed (bacteria, mammals, zebrafish, etc.). Overall the special issue contains 16 papers, 12 of those reporting experimental research data, and 4 others being more review-like although some of them also contain original bioinformatics data.