Marine Natural Products and Their Translational Applications in Medicine
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2018) | Viewed by 15420
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbial ecology and diversity; microbial systematics; biodiscovery; microbial biotechnology applied; environmental and industrial microbiology; marine microbiology; biological control; actinomycetology; bacteriophages
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Interests: antibiotics; bioprospecting; secondary metabolites biosynthesis; bacterial genetics; metabolic engineering; synthetic biology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the 1960s, marine environments have provided a diverse range of naturally-produced compounds, and, notably, those from marine organisms have been shown to display a variety of biological activities with the potential to be utilized for biotechnological, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and environmental applications. Although there are over 15,000 marine natural products described to date, relatively few of these compounds have made it to clinical trials, let alone received approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) for marketing. As a result, a translational approach that brings different contributors of biomedical research together might reveal the true potential of marine derived compounds, especially for medicinal applications. The latter is of outmost importance considering the looming crisis of antibiotic resistance and the increasing incidence of cancer. In this Special Issue, the Guest Editors would like to invite marine biodiscovery researchers to contribute a variety of manuscripts that will complement others to provide a comprehensive view of a holistic approach to marine biodiscovery. Manuscripts ranging from search and discovery to marine natural product chemistry to clinical applications of marine natural products are invited.
Dr. Ipek Kurtboke
Prof. Dr. Sergey B. Zotchev
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
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Marine microorganisms
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translational applications
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marine biodiscovery
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marine biotechnology
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marine environments
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