Selected Papers from the 15th International Symposium on Marine Natural Products

A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).

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Interests: marine natural products; biosynthesis of chemical mediators; drug discovery; biofuels from marine microalgae; biological hydrogen
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Dear Colleagues,

Marine natural products steadily continue to increase in number and unusual scaffolds. In addition to their role in bioprospecting, including pharmaceutical, cosmeceutical and nutraceutical applications, these molecules are privileged targets of chemical and molecular studies, and also cause traditional interest as determining factors in the structuring and functioning of marine communities.

The 15th International Symposium on Marine Natural Products (MaNaPro) will take place in Cumbuco Beach, Ceará, Brazil, from 29 August to 2 September, 2016, covering many aspects related to marine natural products research. MaNaPro presents an ideal environment for scientific discussions, interaction between researchers, and for the establishment of collaborations. Traditionally, the symposium is a unique and privileged opportunity to leverage research in the field of marine natural products. The scientific program includes sections on the following topics: marine genetic resources, chemical ecology, chemical synthesis, chemodiversity, "omics" approaches, and the development of new drugs from marine molecules.

Marine Drugs is setting up a Special Issue on "Selected Papers from the 15th International Symposium on Marine Natural Products", which will cover the main highlights presented at the conference.

Leticia Lotufo
Angelo Fontana
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Plakofuranolactone as a Quorum Quenching Agent from the Indonesian Sponge Plakortis cf. lita
by Valeria Costantino, Gerardo Della Sala, Kumar Saurav, Roberta Teta, Rinat Bar-Shalom, Alfonso Mangoni and Laura Steindler
Mar. Drugs 2017, 15(3), 59; https://doi.org/10.3390/md15030059 - 28 Feb 2017
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There is an urgent need for novel strategies to fight drug resistance and multi-drug resistance. As an alternative to the classic antibiotic therapy, attenuation of the bacteria virulence affecting their Quorum sensing (QS) system is a promising approach. Quorum sensing (QS) is a [...] Read more.
There is an urgent need for novel strategies to fight drug resistance and multi-drug resistance. As an alternative to the classic antibiotic therapy, attenuation of the bacteria virulence affecting their Quorum sensing (QS) system is a promising approach. Quorum sensing (QS) is a genetic regulation system that allows bacteria to communicate with each other and coordinate group behaviors. A new γ-lactone that is capable of inhibiting the LasI/R QS system, plakofuranolactone (1), was discovered in the extract of the marine sponge Plakortis cf. lita, and its structure, including absolute configuration, was determined by NMR spectroscopy, MS spectrometry, and quantum-mechanical prediction of optical rotation. The quorum quenching activity of plakofuranolactone was evaluated using reporter gene assays for long- and short-chain signals (E. coli pSB1075, E. coli pSB401, and C. violeaceum CV026) and was confirmed by measuring the total protease activity (a virulence factor which is under control of the LasI/R system) of the wild-type P. aeruginosa PAO1. Further research will be pursued to assess the potential of plakofuranolactone as a new antivirulence lead compound and a chemical tool to increase the knowledge in this field. Full article
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