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Marine Drugs, Volume 17, Issue 8

August 2019 - 53 articles

Cover Story: Chitin is a polysaccharide produced as waste stream during the processing of crustaceans. It can be converted into chitosan and partially acetylated chitosan oligomers (COS), which have useful properties, including antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory activities. The chemical production of COS is environmentally hazardous and the degree of polymerization and acetylation cannot be controlled. By using enzymes like chitinases, chitosanases and chitin deacetylases, better-defined COS products can be obtained. This article presents the most recent chemical and enzymatic approaches for the production of COS, and puts forward the design-of-experiments approach for process optimization as a mean to enhance product yield and characteristics. View this paper.
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Articles (53)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,005 Views
17 Pages

16 August 2019

Chemical analysis of a cultivation of an Australian Mugil mullet gastrointestinal tract (GIT) derived fungus, Scopulariopsis sp. CMB-F458, yielded the known lipodepsipeptides scopularides A (1) and B (2). A comparative global natural product social (...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,630 Views
16 Pages

Current Stage of Marine Ceramic Grafts for 3D Bone Tissue Regeneration

  • Patricia Diaz-Rodriguez,
  • Miriam López-Álvarez,
  • Julia Serra,
  • Pío González and
  • Mariana Landín

15 August 2019

Bioceramic scaffolds are crucial in tissue engineering for bone regeneration. They usually provide hierarchical porosity, bioactivity, and mechanical support supplying osteoconductive properties and allowing for 3D cell culture. In the case of age-re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,185 Views
13 Pages

A Collection of Bioactive Nitrogen-Containing Molecules from the Marine Sponge Acanthostrongylophora ingens

  • Germana Esposito,
  • Linh H. Mai,
  • Arlette Longeon,
  • Alfonso Mangoni,
  • Emilie Durieu,
  • Laurent Meijer,
  • Rob Van Soest,
  • Valeria Costantino and
  • Marie-Lise Bourguet-Kondracki

15 August 2019

Thirteen nitrogen-containing molecules (1a/1b and 2–12) were isolated from the Indonesian sponge Acanthostrongylophora ingens, highlighting the richness of this organism as a source of alkaloids. Their structures were elucidated using one- and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,822 Views
14 Pages

Padina pavonica Extract Promotes In Vitro Differentiation and Functionality of Human Primary Osteoblasts

  • Mariagiulia Minetti,
  • Giulia Bernardini,
  • Manuele Biazzo,
  • Gilles Gutierrez,
  • Michela Geminiani,
  • Teresa Petrucci and
  • Annalisa Santucci

15 August 2019

Marine algae have gained much importance in the development of nutraceutical products due to their high content of bioactive compounds. In this work, we investigated the activity of Padina pavonica with the aim to demonstrate the pro-osteogenic abili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,364 Views
14 Pages

14 August 2019

The objective of this research was to extract and prepare mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) and investigate the mechanism by which they act against UV-induced skin photoaging in Institute of Cancer Research (ICR ) mice. MAAs such as porphyra-334 an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,068 Views
24 Pages

The Sialic Acid-Dependent Nematocyst Discharge Process in Relation to Its Physical-Chemical Properties Is a Role Model for Nanomedical Diagnostic and Therapeutic Tools

  • Ruiyan Zhang,
  • Li Jin,
  • Ning Zhang,
  • Athanasios K. Petridis,
  • Thomas Eckert,
  • Georgios Scheiner-Bobis,
  • Martin Bergmann,
  • Axel Scheidig,
  • Roland Schauer and
  • Mingdi Yan
  • + 4 authors

12 August 2019

Formulas derived from theoretical physics provide important insights about the nematocyst discharge process of Cnidaria (Hydra, jellyfishes, box-jellyfishes and sea-anemones). Our model description of the fastest process in living nature raises and a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
84 Citations
11,872 Views
46 Pages

Coral and Coral-Associated Microorganisms: A Prolific Source of Potential Bioactive Natural Products

  • Vo Thanh Sang,
  • Ton That Huu Dat,
  • Le Ba Vinh,
  • Le Canh Viet Cuong,
  • Phung Thi Thuy Oanh,
  • Hoang Ha,
  • Young Ho Kim,
  • Hoang Le Tuan Anh and
  • Seo Young Yang

11 August 2019

Marine invertebrates and their associated microorganisms are rich sources of bioactive compounds. Among them, coral and its associated microorganisms are promising providers of marine bioactive compounds. The present review provides an overview of bi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,633 Views
15 Pages

Transcriptomic Analysis of Marine Gastropod Hemifusus tuba Provides Novel Insights into Conotoxin Genes

  • Ronghua Li,
  • Michaël Bekaert,
  • Luning Wu,
  • Changkao Mu,
  • Weiwei Song,
  • Herve Migaud and
  • Chunlin Wang

10 August 2019

The marine gastropod Hemifusus tuba is served as a luxury food in Asian countries and used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat lumbago and deafness. The lack of genomic data on H. tuba is a barrier to aquaculture development and functional chara...

  • Review
  • Open Access
270 Citations
20,782 Views
32 Pages

Marine Collagen as A Promising Biomaterial for Biomedical Applications

  • Ye-Seon Lim,
  • Ye-Jin Ok,
  • Seon-Yeong Hwang,
  • Jong-Young Kwak and
  • Sik Yoon

10 August 2019

This review focuses on the expanding role of marine collagen (MC)-based scaffolds for biomedical applications. A scaffold—a three-dimensional (3D) structure fabricated from biomaterials—is a key supporting element for cell attachment, gro...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
53 Citations
5,890 Views
13 Pages

Bioactive Brominated Oxindole Alkaloids from the Red Sea Sponge Callyspongia siphonella

  • Seham S. El-Hawary,
  • Ahmed M. Sayed,
  • Rabab Mohammed,
  • Hossam M. Hassan,
  • Mostafa E. Rateb,
  • Elham Amin,
  • Tarek A. Mohammed,
  • Mohamed El-Mesery,
  • Abdullatif Bin Muhsinah and
  • Abdulrhman Alsayari
  • + 3 authors

9 August 2019

In the present study, LC-HRESIMS-assisted dereplication along with bioactivity-guided isolation led to targeting two brominated oxindole alkaloids (compounds 1 and 2) which probably play a key role in the previously reported antibacterial, antibiofil...

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