Marine Bioactive Peptides II: Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Potential
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 52594
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine natural products; marine peptides; innate immunity; host defense peptides; molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial and anticancer activity; structure elucidation; structure-function relationship; bioengineering; drug design; peptide antibiotics; peptide anticancer agents; drug resistance; bioorganic chemistry; biotechnology
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Dear Colleagues,
This second edition of the Special Issue “Marine Bioactive Peptides: Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Potential” aims to collect papers on up-to-date information regarding isolation, structural elucidation, functional characterization, and therapeutic potential evaluation of peptides isolated from marine organisms. Chemical synthesis and biotechnological production of marine peptides and their mimetics will also be a focus of this Special Issue. In addition, this Special Issue will publish new results arising from a peptidomic approach.
Marine peptides that are diverse in structure and function have been found in various phyla, and their number has dynamically grown in recent years. Some of them are evolutionary ancient molecular factors of innate immunity that play a key role in host defense. A plethora of biological activities, including antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, cytotoxic, neurotoxic, anticoagulant, antifreeze, endotoxin-binding, and immune-modulating, make marine peptides an attractive molecular basis for the design of innovative antibiotics, anticancer drugs, analgetics, medicines for neurological disorders, etc.
24 Papers were accepted and included in the first issue, which we published as a Special Issue book (https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1742). Following the success of the first Special Issue, as Guest Editor, I invite researchers in the field to contribute to the second edition entitled "Marine Bioactive Peptides II: Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Potential".
Prof. Dr. Tatiana V. Ovchinnikova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine peptides
- structure
- function
- chemical synthesis
- biotechnological production
- peptidomics
- therapeutic potential
- antibacterial
- antifungal
- antiviral
- cytotoxic
- neurotoxic
- anticancer
- anticoagulant
- endotoxin-binding
- host defense
- innate immunity
- toxins
- peptide drugs
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