Novel Marine Antimicrobial Agents: Isolation, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation
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: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 961
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structure derivation of marine natural products; mining and activity evaluation of marine microbial active molecules; active skeleton synthesis methodology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A recent article [1] published in The Lancet predicted that approximately 39 million deaths will be attributed to antimicrobial resistance from 2025 to 2050 if no new measures are employed. Given the scarce treatment options available once infection occurs, investment in drug development for these highly resistant microbes is still needed and urgent. The isolation and synthesis of marine bioactive compounds or the modification of these molecules are important measures for exploiting them as antimicrobial candidates due to their wide-ranging origins, fruitful chemical backbones, and vast amounts.
For the above purpose, we launched a new Special Issue, “Novel Marine Antimicrobial Agents: Isolation, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation”, about discovering marine antimicrobial agents. This Special Issue focuses on the isolation, synthesis, and biological evaluation of antimicrobial agents based on marine-originated backbones. We invite scientists worldwide to submit their reviews and original research achievements in this field to Marine Drugs.
Reference
1. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: A systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050; Naghavi, Mohsen et al. The Lancet, 2024, Volume 404, Issue 10459, 1199–1226.
Dr. Shengrong Liao
Dr. Haibo Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial agent
- marine compound
- isolation
- design & synthesis
- antimicrobial activity
- modification
- marine origin
- mechanism
- marine organism
- microbe
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