Marine Natural Products with Anti-Prostate Cancer Activity
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Chemoecology for Drug Discovery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 20
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine microorganisms; marine natural product; drug leads; anti-prostate cancer activity; pharmacological mechanism
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Interests: marine natural product; prostate cancer; cell death; oxidative stress; drug resistance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine natural products (MNPs), displaying unique structural diversity and bioactivity, offer advantages over terrestrial compounds. Prostate cancer (PCa) is a leading cause of male cancer deaths, and resistance to conventional therapies highlights the need for novel treatments. MNPs show promising anti-PCa potential, providing structurally distinct compounds with targeted mechanisms. They may enable the development next-generation therapies, which can be administered alone or in combination with existing treatments. Translating MNPs into clinical use requires collaboration among chemists, biologists, and pharmacologists.
This Special Issue will focus on advances in all aspects of MNPs for anti-PCa drug discovery, including the following aspects:
- Structurally new and anti-PCa bioactive MNPs;
- Predictive models of the structure and function of MNPs;
- The efficacy and pharmacological mechanisms of anti-PCa MNPs;
- Total synthesis, optimization, or biosynthesis of anti-PCa MNPs;
- Marine medicinal biological resource research.
Dr. Bin Yang
Dr. Xueni Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine natural products
- anti-PCa activity
- biosynthetic pathway
- structure–activity relationships
- molecular docking
- network pharmacology
- experimental validation
- molecular dynamics simulations
- pharmacological mechanism
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