Marine-Derived Natural Products with Potential Benefits on Human and Animal Health: Tackling Pathogenic Virus, Protozoal and MDR-Bacteria
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 3368
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic chemistry; marine natural products; solid-phase peptide synthesis; medicinal chemistry; isolation; structure elucidation; drug delivery; bioactive compounds
Interests: natural products; natural-product-based hybrids; herbal formulations; biotransformation biological properties
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Dear Colleagues,
Marine-derived organisms continue to attract attention as a rich source of structurally novel bioactive metabolites that are potential lead compounds for the development of new drugs. More than 99% of naturally occurring organisms remain unexplored because of the surge in marine biodiversity. This biodiversity changes according to many factors such as weather, ecosystem, human influence and non-identified species. The enumerated factors make the marine ecosystem an important niche of biologically relevant natural products. Therefore, it can contribute significantly to the discovery of novel metabolites with potent biological activities against pathogenic virus, protozoal and MDR bacteria.
This Special Issue within the Marine-Derived Natural Products Chemistry Section of Marine Drugs aims to collect original research and review articles regarding new culture techniques to produce marine microorganism-derived natural products, new natural products from other marine organisms, structure identification and biological activity against pathogenic virus, protozoals (plasmodium sp., Leishmaniasis sp., Trypanosoma sp. and others) and MDR bacteria.
The issue will also accept manuscripts that consider the total synthesis of marine-derived natural products and semisynthetic derivatives of marine natural products with the abovementioned biological activity and the mechanism of action.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Alain Simplice Leutou
Prof. Dr. Louis Pergaud Sandjo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine natural products
- structure elucidation
- extraction and purification
- biological activity
- NMR and LC/MS
- bioactive compounds
- multidrug resistance
- drug discovery
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