From Biodiversity to Bioactivity: Mining Novel Compounds from Marine Microalgae
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biotechnology Related to Drug Discovery or Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 24
Editor
Interests: microalgae; nannochloropsis; lipid metabolism; synthetic biology; metabolic engineering
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine microalgae are a highly diverse yet underexplored source of structurally unique bioactive compounds. Their metabolic diversity, shaped by adaptation to marine environments, provides opportunities to discover novel lipids, pigments, polysaccharides, peptides, sterols, and other metabolites with pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and biotechnological potential.
This Special Issue highlights advances in exploring the taxonomic, genetic, and metabolic diversity of marine microalgae and translating this biodiversity into bioactive compound discovery. Particular emphasis is placed on studies linking microalgal resources with compound identification, biosynthetic mechanisms, biological activities, and sustainable production.
We welcome original research articles and reviews on novel microalgal strains and metabolites, genome and metabolome mining, bioactivity-guided screening, biosynthetic pathway elucidation, structural characterization, and functional evaluation. Studies integrating omics, analytical, computational, cultivation, and genetic engineering approaches to discover and sustainably produce marine microalgal bioactives are particularly encouraged.
Dr. Yi Xin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine microalgae
- bioactive compounds
- microalgal biodiversity
- natural product discovery
- metabolite mining
- metabolomics
- genome mining
- biosynthetic pathways
- bioactivity-guided screening
- sustainable bioproduction
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