Isolation, Identification, and Applications of Bioactive Compounds from Marine Plants
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2025) | Viewed by 5312
Special Issue Editor
2. Interdepartmental Research Center Nutrafood “Nutraceuticals and Food for Health”, University of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Interests: enzyme kinetics; protein purification; enzyme modulatiom; drug discovery; metabolite extraction
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Dear Colleagues,
Marine plants are plants adapted to grow under the sea or ocean. There are thousands of different types of marine plants growing in the world’s oceans and seas and their adaptation to the aquatic environment is variable. There are marine plants that live totally submerged, while others have large emerging parts. These plants include algae and vascular plant species. Marine plants play fundamental roles in marine ecosystem by keeping water oxygenated, providing a food source for aquatic life, and protecting smaller marine animals from predators.
Like terrestrial plant, marine plants could be considered as a prominent source of biofuels, nonfuels, and bioactive compounds ascertained for various pharmacological utilizations. In particular, considering their unique aquatic environment and rich biodiversity, marine plants could be considered a useful source of structurally novel and biologically active metabolites. This Special Issue will include reviews and research articles focused on functional and innovative technologies to extract and isolate metabolites from marine plants capable of effectively interacting with a therapeutic target in order to develop a drug suitable for clinical trials. Please send me an abstract prior to submission to make sure that your work falls within the scope of this Special Issue.
Dr. Francesco Balestri
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine plant
- bioactive compounds
- metabolite purification
- drug discovery
- therapeutic target
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