Bioactive Compounds from Coral Reef Organisms
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 January 2020) | Viewed by 23923
Special Issue Editor
Interests: antimicrobial agents; natural products chemistry; liquid chromatography; NMR analysis; mass spectrometry; synthesis of biologically active molecules; structure-based drug design; medicinal chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
Although coral reefs occupy less than 0.1% of the world’s ocean surface in tropical and subtropical zones, we know that they provide habitat for 25% of all marine organisms. This highly bio-diverse ecosystem presents a number of species interacting with the environment and with each other in a competition for life resources including food, space and sunlight. The invertebrates, associated bacteria and marine plants living in this habitat have proven to be the source of secondary metabolites with peculiar molecular structures and mostly showing remarkable biological activity that make them promising candidates for new drug discovery.
This Special Issue will report results on coral reef natural products involved at any level of the production of drugs, from their isolation to structural characterization, from chemical synthesis to preliminary biological investigation and more advanced pharmacological evaluation. I would like to invite you to submit articles on your current research on this topic, as well as critical overview works of the existing literature.
Prof. Ines Mancini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- coral reef natural products
- marine metabolites
- bioactivities
- structural elucidation
- organic synthesis
- therapeutic lead compounds
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