Biologically Active Molecules from Microbes and Plants
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural products chemistry; anti-inflammatory; organic chemistry; pharmacognosy; drug discovery
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to capture the isolation, structural characterisation, and biological profiling (anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-cancer) of new secondary metabolites from microbes and plants. Preference will be given to the discovery of new molecules and their biological activity, however reporting of known compounds with a novel biological activity associated with them will also be considered. This Special Issue is also open to comprehensive review articles that showcases a new perspective on the natural products drug discovery forefront. We highly welcome review articles that bring novelty to the plant and microbial bio-discovery platform.
Dr. Ritesh Raju
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- isolation
- structural characterization
- biological profiling
- biological activity
- anti-inflammatory
- anti-bacterial
- anti-cancer
- secondary metabolite
- microbe
- plant
- natural product
- drug discovery
- bio-discovery
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