Metabolites from Algae: Discovery, Identification and Multifaceted Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 737
Special Issue Editors
Interests: employment of microalgae for drug discovery and drug delivery systems; as food or feed supplements; for bioremediation purposes; novel culture strategies and technologies to increase the yields of marine primary and secondary metabolites
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Interests: novel bioactive metabolites from marine microalgae for pharmaceutical; nutraceutical and cosmeceutical applications; novel strategies to enhance industrial production of marine-derived compounds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine organisms are an attractive source of metabolites that can be exploited for various biotechnological purposes, including pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmeceutical applications. Among them, macro- and microalgae are considered as an economic, viable and underexploited source of bioactive compounds with health-promoting properties and ecosustainable sources/devices for bioenergy and bioremediation. These organisms can be easily collected from aquatic environments and maintained on laboratory and prototype scales. Their ease of collection and/or cultivation makes them excellent test organisms for laboratory studies, allows the scale-up of the cultivation processes at pre-industrial and industrial scales, and paves the way for possible concrete applications for the production of specific metabolites of vegetal origin.
Future studies of macro- and microalgae should be aimed at discovering new methodologies and new technologies to enhance the production of their metabolites at an industrial scale.
In the above context, this Special Issue invites original scientific contributions on topics including the following:
- Research articles on novel metabolites from algae with potential applications in drug discovery or as drug delivery systems;
- Research articles focused on the potential of algae for bioremediation or ecosustainable energy production;
- New strategies to optimize the yields of algae- derived metabolites;
- Review articles representing the state of the art on the potential of macro- and/or microalgae as sources of drugs and other valuable compounds.
Dr. Angela Sardo
Dr. Giovanna Romano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine algae-derived metabolites
- marine photosynthetic organisms as a source of drugs, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals
- biotechnological applications of macro- and microalgae
- novel strategies for industrial production of marine-derived compounds
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