Marine Cyclic Peptides: Isolation, Synthesis and Biological Activities
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 December 2021) | Viewed by 9958
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Peptide synthesis; Organic Chemistry; Marine Peptides; SAR studies
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine Cyclic Peptides are complex compounds exhibiting a wide array of biological activities thanks to their structures containing non-natural amino acids that have no equivalent at the terrestrial level. They are isolated from various marine species which use them as defense tools but they constitute also new chemical scaffolds and pharmaceutically potent molecules from which some are clinically used or in preclinical assays. Further study of these compounds are often impaired by their isolation in minute quantities, thus prompting chemist to engage in their synthesis, which allows in turn structure confirmation.
This special issue is intended to publish research highlighting isolation by biological activities guided protocols. Articles dealing with their synthesis for structure confirmation or the establishment of structure/activity relationships along with their biological activities are welcome. Review articles relating to a particular class of cyclic marine peptides will also be considered.
Prof. Dr. Nicolas Inguimbert
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Marine natural compounds
- Cyclic peptides
- Lipopeptides
- bioactive compounds
- structure activity relationship
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