Biophysics and Physicobiology

Biophysics and Physicobiology

Biophysics and Physicobiology (BPPB) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access online journal published officially by the Biophysical Society of Japan (BSJ) for all areas of biophysics with either the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license or the CC BY 4.0 license, which is selected in accordance with the authors’ preference. Biophysics has long been developed in a field of physics using physical methods and theories to study the structures and functions of biological systems. The BSJ had originally published a journal, "Biophysics", since 2005, but changed its name in 2015 adding a word "Physicobiology". It is a new word, proposing that the scope of the journal could be widen to broader range of biologists and could further stimulate the exchange of ideas among the biophysicists. The details about the Journal and the Editorial board members are shown in the BPPB web page provided by the BSJ.

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Published by The Biophysical Society of Japan

743 registered articles
(updated on April 28, 2026)

Online ISSN : 2189-4779
ISSN-L : 2189-4779

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Volume 18 (2021) Issue Supplemental Pages S001-S002

Editorial: English translation of “The Oosawa Lectures on DIY Statistical Mechanics”

Editorial team for the Special Issue on Oosawa’s Lectures

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Dr. Fumio Oosawa (10th Dec 1922 – 4th March 2019), a pioneer of single-molecule studies, made a series of lectures on statistical mechanics at a summer school run by the Society of Young Scientists in Biophysics in July, 1996. Based on the lectures, the original Japanese textbook was published in 2011. Since then, the English version has been expected to be published. The Biophysical Society of Japan now publishes the English version in a Special Issue of the Biophysics and Physicobiology (Vol. 18), which is an open access journal, by the Editorial Team for this Special Issue. In December 2021, the Preface and first Chapter 1 were published. Chapter 2 and later will be published soon one after another.

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2026 Volume 23 Issue 1

Liquid-liquid phase separation and its regulation of the BACH2 intrinsically disordered region Hironori Hayashi, Miyuki Kato-Murayama, Takeshi Kurasawa, Eiichi N. Kodama, Mikako Shirouzu, Kazuhiko Igarashi, Kazutaka Murayama
Development of electromagnetic tweezers for single-molecule energetics of kinesin Haruyuki Fukuzawa, Yuga Ihara, Masato Sawa, Hidekazu Shirai, Sawako Enoki, Keigo Ikezaki, Taketoshi Kambara, Yasushi Okada
Mechanistic insights into a cold-adapted glucokinase with high thermal stability were revealed by site-directed spin labeling ESR Akane Yato, Masaki Horitani
NMR evidence for residue-based LFER relationship in two-state folding-unfolding equilibrium of the spectrin SH3 domain in acidic solutions Seiichiro Hayashi, Daisuke Fujinami, Daisuke Kohda

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Deuteration Aiming for Neutron Scattering

Released on J-STAGE: February 06, 2021 | Article ID bppb-v18.003

Aya Okuda, Rintaro Inoue, Ken Morishima, Tomohide Saio, Yasuhiro Yunoki, Maho Yagi-Utsumi, Hirokazu Yagi, Masahiro Shimizu, Nobuhiro Sato, Reiko Urade, Koichi, Kato, Masaaki Sugiyama

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Molecular mechanisms of the high performance of spider silks revealed through multi-omics analysis

Released on J-STAGE: March 21, 2023 | Volume 20 Issue 1 e200014

Yasuha Watanabe, Kazuharu Arakawa

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Development of electromagnetic tweezers for single-molecule energetics of kinesin

Released on J-STAGE: February 27, 2026 | Volume 23 Issue 1 e230003

Haruyuki Fukuzawa, Yuga Ihara, Masato Sawa, Hidekazu Shirai, Sawako Enoki, Keigo Ikezaki, Taketoshi Kambara, Yasushi Okada

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LOV2-based photoactivatable CaMKII and its application to single synapses: Local Optogenetics

Released on J-STAGE: June 20, 2023 | Volume 20 Issue 2 e200027

Yutaro Nagasawa, Hiromi H. Ueda, Haruka Kawabata, Hideji Murakoshi

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Artificial cell system as a tool for investigating pattern formation mechanisms of intracellular reaction-diffusion waves

Released on J-STAGE: November 09, 2024 | Volume 21 Issue 4 e210022

Sakura Takada, Kei Fujiwara

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Biophysics and Physicobiology has been selected for coverage in ESCI and given the JIF.
As of 28th September, 2018, Biophysics and Physicobiology（BPPB), the international journal of the Biophysical Society of Japan, was selected for one of the Journals to be indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). ESCI is a new index in the Web of Science for journals of regional importance and of newly emerging fields. The journals in ESCI are collected in Web of Science and have an imporved visibility from the world. ESCI paves the way for the journals. In June 2023, the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) was given to BPPB. For the detail of ESCI and JIF, visit the website of Clarivate Analytics.

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