Glycolipids from Marine Bacteria
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 3593
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Interests: lipopolysaccharides; glycoconjugates; extracellular polysaccharide; capsular polysaccharide; NMR spectroscopy; anti-biofilm molecules; mass spectrometry; cold-adapted bacteria
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Dear Colleagues,
The growing interest in the search of bioactive molecules has led scientists to focus on marine environments. Marine and marine extremophilic habitats represent the reservoir for more than 50% of total biomass of prokaryotes in the world.
Bacterial glycolipids are complex amphipathic molecules containing one or more monosaccharide residues linked to a hydrophobic moiety, such as an acylglycerol, a sphingoid backbone, a ceramide or a prenyl phosphate. They are collectively included in a larger family of substances known as glycoconjugates, together with the lipopolysaccharides (LPSs) and the capsular polysaccharides, anchored to the cell membrane through a lipid moiety.
Bacterial glycolipids are involved in the organization and function of bacterial membranes and play a role in the activation of the immune system of the host. Furthermore, glycolipids extracted from marine bacteria have been shown to possess several relevant biological properties including antiviral, anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulant activities.
This Special Issue aims to collect as many papers as possible to summarize the state-of-the-art concerning the isolation, structural characterization, and biological activity of the glycolipids produced by marine bacteria.
Dr. Angela Casillo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine bacteria
- marine extremophiles
- glycolipids
- glycosphingolipids
- glycoglycerolipids
- lipopolysaccharide
- structural characterization, natural products
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