Natural Products in Antibacterial Research of Plant and Food Extracts
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 Editors
Interests: natural products chemistry; chromatography; mass spectrometry; bioactivity testing; secondary metabolites; countercurrent chromatography
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Interests: medical microbiology; antimicrobial compounds of synthetic and natural origin; human microbiota
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, there is a growing interest in natural bioactive products and their applications in food and pharmaceutical industry. The importance of food-borne pathogens to disease transmission and microbial food safety can be regarded as an important problem for global public health. Bacterial species are reported to be etiological agents of two-thirds of food-borne diseases in human worldwide. Recently the use of natural substances as food preservatives of plant-derived and animal-derived products as well as inhibitors of microbial metabolites has increased. Moreover, natural compounds can also be useful for the development of novel therapeutic options in the treatment of food-borne bacterial diseases.
This Special Issue aims to highlight the significance of natural products in microbial food safety, with particular focus on the isolation and structure elucidation of new natural antibacterials or compounds with not yet well documented antimicrobial activity, their mechanism of action, and their application in food and/or pharmaceutical industries.
The potential authors are welcomed to contribute and share their original articles, short communications, and review articles focusing on bioactive products/compounds of plant origin with significant antimicrobial potential and being of interest in prophylaxis and treatment of food-borne bacterial infections.
Prof. Dr. Wirginia Kukula-Koch
Prof. Dr. Anna Malm
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural compounds
- new antibacterials
- extraction methods
- chemistry
- mechanism of action
- food preservatives
- anti-infectious agents
- food-borne bacterial pathogens
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