Marine Metabolites and Metal Ion Chelation
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2019) | Viewed by 4510
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine natural products; isolation and structural elucidation; organic synthesis; biological activity; medicinal chemistry; bacterial iron uptake; siderophores
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Dear Colleagues,
Marine organisms have developed unique mechanisms for the acquisition, sequestration, and utilization of essential trace metals in the marine environment. Many marine secondary metabolites contain functional groups that can complex metals and a great number of marine natural products possess ion chelating ability, such as cyclic peptides, ionophores, siderophores, etc. Studies of isolation, structural elucidation, synthesis and properties of coordination of metal- chelating marine natural products is a topic of increasing interest nowadays due to their potential applications such as agents for medical uses, chelate contrast agents for molecular imaging, bioremediation, metal coordination in surface adhesion, etc. Although some of them may be involved in the uptake and transport of metal ions present in the marine environment, however the real reason of their production is not fully understood. Current investigation is also focused on their structures, dynamics and reactivities and on studies to establish their biological functions. As Guest Editor of this Special Issue of Marine Drugs, I invite you to provide recent advances in all the aspects dealing with marine metabolites and metal ion chelation.
Prof. Dr. Carlos Jimenez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Ion chelating marine natural products
- Marine metallophores
- Marine siderophores
- Marine cyclic peptide–metal complexes
- Marine metalloenzymes
- Structural characterization
- Chemical synthesis
- Coordination chemistry studies
- Biosynthetic pathways
- Biological activity
