Special Issue "Marine Lipids"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Gilles Barnathan
College of Pharmacy, University of Nantes, Nantes, France
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Dear Colleagues,

Marine lipids are undoubtly representatives of the marine chemical biodiversity. Fatty acids (FA) and lipid-containing FA are ubiquitous in nature and a number of structures occur in both terrestrial and marine organisms, but the latter organisms have proved to be a major source of unique structures. From this point of view, the most primitive animals, such as sponges and gorgonians, seem to be of great interest. Thus, in addition to the very important polyunsaturated FA such as eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids, a great number of various FA occur in marine organisms ranged from bacteria and first planktonic marine producers to fish, including branched, non-methylene-interrupted, conjugated, hydroxylated, methoxylated and halogenated FA. These unique lipids originate from unusual biosynthetic pathways. Furthermore, oxylipins, phospholipids and glycolipids have considerable importance and will be taken into account, especially the latter compounds that excite increasing interest regarding their promising antitumor and immunomodulating activities. The biomedical potential of marine lipids leads to an intense effort of research. The chemotaxonomic value of certain lipid molecules would be also taken into account including FA and sterols.

This special issue of Marine Drugs is devoted to “Marine Lipids”. The aim of this issue is to present the recent advances and to introduce some important future research directions in the field of research. Thus, we hope that the manuscripts here included will cover a number of aspects of recent developments within this field.

Prof. Dr. Gilles Barnathan
Guest Editor

Submission

All manuscripts should be submitted to marinedrugs@mdpi.org with a copy to the Guest Editor. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Marine Drugs is an international peer-reviewed Open Access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this Open Access journal is 1400 CHF per accepted paper.

• lipids
• glycolipids
• phospholipids
• oxylipins
• fatty acids
• sterols
• marine organisms
• algae
• marine chemical ecology
• biosynthetic pathways
• biomarkers
• biological interest
• biological activity