Natural Products from the Beibu Gulf of the South China Sea
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 3890
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine natural products; secondary metabolites
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Interests: marine natural products
Interests: marine natural product chemistry; drug leads; pharmacological mechanism; marine microorganisms; biotransformation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Beibu Gulf (Gulf of Tonkin) is located in the northwestern South China Sea. Vietnam lies to the west of the gulf, while China’s Guangxi Province and Hainan Island lie to the north and east of the gulf, respectively. This gulf harbors four representative marine ecosystems, including a coral reef, a mangrove forest, a seagrass bed, and coastal wetland ecosystems; these are rich in gas, oil, and biological resources, particularly where there is an abundant biodiversity of marine (micro-)organisms. There are few reports (< 150 references) on marine natural product (MNP) research in the Beibu Gulf. To our knowledge, approximately 1200 MNPs, including 500 novel ones, have been obtained from the Beibu Gulf (predominantly polyketides, terpenes, and alkaloids); these untapped and abundant biological resources could attract considerable interest from MNP chemists and marine biologists in the coming decades.
This Special Issue will focus on the investigation of novel and bioactive substances from the Beibu Gulf, including the following aspects:
- Structurally new and bioactive natural products from marine macro- and microorganisms;
- Structures and functions of marine biomacromolecules;
- Efficacy and pharmacological mechanisms of MNPs;
- Total synthesis, optimization or biosynthesis of bioactive or novel MNPs;
- Marine medicinal biological resources research.
Dr. Xiaowei Luo
Prof. Dr. Chenghai Gao
Prof. Dr. Xuefeng Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Beibu Gulf
- marine natural products
- marine biomacromolecules
- marine bioactive compounds
- biosynthetic pathway
- pharmacological mechanism
- marine biological resources
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