Bioactive Compounds from Marine Sponges
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2019) | Viewed by 81929
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine natural products chemistry; secondary metabolomics; NMR- and MS-based metabolomics; marine biotechnology
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Dear Colleagues,
In the past few decades, marine natural product research has focused a great deal on sponges. Recently, the number of scientific papers on microbial natural products derived from sponges have been increasing. Although new sources are being explored for collecting sponges for the search of novel compounds for new drugs, there is also an increasing awareness in protecting the environment. Marine natural products scientists have gone through a more ecological and sustainable way to source novel bioactive compounds from sponges. This led scientists to focus more on bioactive secondary metabolites from sponge-derived microorganisms. In the past, it has also been questioned who was the main producer of these unique natural products, considering their structural similarity with microbial metabolites.
In this Special Issue, we would like to revisit the current researches done on bioactive compounds from marine sponges. However, with the current trends in marine natural products research, we would also like to highlight bioactive compounds isolated from sponge-derived microorganisms. I would like to invite colleagues to submit articles on their current research on bioactive compounds from marine sponges, as well as secondary metabolites from sponge-derived or -associated microorganisms.
Dr. RuAngelie Edrada-Ebel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine sponges
- sponge-derived microbes
- bioactive marine natural products
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