Marine Natural Compounds with Biomedical Potential: 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Marine organisms are an inexhaustible source of natural compounds that are promising for the creation of drugs or biologically active additives, which is closely related to the huge biological diversity of the resources of the World Ocean. More than 99% of the studied marine natural compounds are new, having no analogues among land plants and animals. The spectrum of biological activities shown by metabolites of marine origin is extremely wide; they exhibit antitumor, cancer-preventive, analgesic, antimicrobial, neuroprotective and other actions. The probability of the release of new highly active substances from marine organisms, on the basis of which drugs for medicine and veterinary medicine can be created and the corresponding technologies for their use, is quite high.

The use of "omix" technologies, such as metabolomics, genomics, proteomics, and venomics, makes it possible to ensure the scale and maximum efficiency of studying compounds of various origins with biomedical potential using a limited initial biomaterial. This opens up new possibilities for studying the structures and biological activities of new compounds, including complete metabolomes/transcriptomes and individual minor components of complex natural mixtures.

This Special Issue covers the role of marine organisms in biomolecule production, including screening extracts or isolating new metabolites and evaluating their biological activity.

Dr. Elena Leychenko

Guest Editor

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