Marine Peptides and Their Mimetics
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2015) | Viewed by 234478
Special Issue Editors
Interests: use of modified amino acids, peptides and peptidomimetics in chemical biology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The number of bioactive peptides isolated from marine organisms continues to grow. These peptides are found in a range of phyla including Mollusca, Crustacea, Porifera, Cnidaria, Nemertina, Echinodermata and Craniata, as well as a number of fish species. Marine peptides have been shown to possess a range of activities of medical relevance including an ability to interact with a variety of human ion channels. Marine peptides have also been found to possess antimicrobial, antiviral, anticoagulant and antifreeze properties.
This special issue will present recent results from the isolation, characterisation and biological evaluation of peptides found in marine organisms. Peptides rarely make good therapeutics and the design, synthesis and testing of small-molecule mimetics of bioactive marine peptides with medical relevance is also the subject of much research, and will also be a focus of this special issue.
Peter Duggan
Dr. Kellie L. Tuck
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine peptides
- peptidomimetics
- cystine knots
- cone snails
- structure-activity
- structure determination
- biological activity
- ion channel blockers
- peptide synthesis
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