The Journal of Membrane Biology will publish papers on the nature the structure genesis and functions of biological membranes and on the physics and chemistry of artificial membranes with a bearing on biomembranes. It will publish articles dealing with plasma membranes (including cell surfaces and accessory surface structures such as bacterial or plant cell walls); intracellular membranes (e.g. membranes of organelles nuclei mitochondria chloroplasts vesicles intracellular reticula); membrane organs (e.g. skin urinary bladder gut kidney lung); biomembrane models (e.g. monolayers bilayers synthetic membranes); and general considerations of two-dimensional biological structures . Suitable topics are chemical and physical structure; immunochemical properties and fingerprinting; colloid and surface chemistry; transport and secretory functions including natural and artificial transport carrier systems membrane channels diffusion and pinocytosis; metabolic functions membrane-bound enzyme systems transduction; electrical phenomena in excitable membranes nerve muscle receptors etc; membrane - membrane interaction intercellular communication; membrane synthesis and replication; cell regulatory functions of membranes and cybernetic aspects; membrane genetics; evolution and comparative aspects of biomembranes.

《膜生物學(xué)雜志》將發(fā)表有關(guān)生物膜的性質(zhì)、結(jié)構(gòu)成因和功能，以及與生物膜有關(guān)的人工膜的物理和化學(xué)方面的論文。發(fā)表關(guān)于細(xì)胞膜的文章(包括細(xì)胞表面和細(xì)菌或植物細(xì)胞壁等附屬表面結(jié)構(gòu))；胞內(nèi)膜(如細(xì)胞器、細(xì)胞核、線粒體、葉綠體、囊泡等)；膜器官(如皮膚、膀胱、腸道、腎、肺)；生物膜模型(如單層雙層合成膜)；以及二維生物結(jié)構(gòu)的一般考慮。適宜的題目是化學(xué)和物理結(jié)構(gòu)；免疫化學(xué)性質(zhì)和指紋；膠體和表面化學(xué)；轉(zhuǎn)運(yùn)和分泌功能包括天然和人工轉(zhuǎn)運(yùn)載體系統(tǒng)、膜通道擴(kuò)散和胞飲；代謝功能膜結(jié)合酶系統(tǒng)轉(zhuǎn)導(dǎo)；興奮膜、神經(jīng)肌肉受體等電現(xiàn)象；膜-膜相互作用細(xì)胞間通信；膜的合成與復(fù)制；細(xì)胞膜的細(xì)胞調(diào)節(jié)功能和控制論方面；膜遺傳學(xué)；生物膜的進(jìn)化與比較。