Added Value Fatty Acids Production: Marine Sources
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2019) | Viewed by 6354
Special Issue Editor
Interests: protein engineering; structural biology; x-ray protein crystallography; polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis; bacterial conjugation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine organisms produce specific fatty acids as secondary metabolites to be able to survive in marine habitats. These fatty acids confer specific metabolic and physiological properties to marine organisms such as membrane fluidity or antioxidant activity. These properties make these fatty acids promising nutritional or therapeutical compounds for humans or animals. Considerable efforts are being made to increase the production and yield of these fatty acids to industrial scales. Growing conditions, culture media, or extraction procedures are being optimized for this purpose. Moreover, characterization of the metabolic pathways and genes involved in non-conventional fatty acid synthesis could allow the optimization of this production and the design of novel fatty acids with specific nutraceutical or therapeutical properties.
This special issue aims to highlight the importance of marine fatty acids and the problems involved in their industrial production.
As the Guest Editor, I would like to invite scientists working with marine fatty acids to report recent advances in the field: discovery of marine organisms with novel fatty acid profiles, nutraceutical or pharmaceutical uses of marine fatty acids, characterization of synthases involved in the synthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids, improvement of industrial production of marine added-value fatty acids. I look forward to receiving your contributions to this Special Issue of the journal Marine Drugs dedicated to added-value fatty acids.
Dr. Gabriel Moncalián
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis
- Essential fatty acids
- Therapeutic fatty acids
- Protein engineering
- Metabolic engineering
- Oleogenic marine organisms
