Natural Products and Their Derivatives with Antiviral Activity
A special issue of Biomolecules (ISSN 2218-273X). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural and Bio-derived Molecules".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 574
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural products have been used in China and other countries to treat various diseases for more than 2000 years. Although an increasing number of natural products have been shown to have antiviral activity, their mechanisms and targets are insufficient. The abundant structural types of natural products provide new molecular entities for the development of antiviral drugs. However, the progress of rational drug design and research of natural products based on these activities, total synthesis and structural modification, biotransformation and biomimetic synthesis, the application of computational chemistry in natural product chemistry, and the identification of molecular targets by means of chemical biology are scant.
In this Special Issue of Biomolecules, we invite researchers to contribute original research and review articles that deal with the physiological, molecular, and biochemical efficacy of natural products from traditional Chinese medicine that exhibits various antiviral activity. Articles that deal with rational drug design, structural modification, biotransformation, and chemical biology are welcome.
Dr. Zhijun Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- natural products
- synthetic antivirals
- antiviral drugs
- antiviral strategies
- influenza
- HBV
- HIV
- RSV
- COVID-19
- SARS-CoV-2
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