Natural Products as Antimicrobial and Antiviral Agents: From Extraction to Therapeutic Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 53
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metabolomics; mass spectrometry; secondary metabolites; natural bioactive compounds
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Interests: secondary metabolites in plant-pathogen interaction; natural substances with biological activity; chromatographic techniques, spectroscopic methods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural products, derived from plants, microorganisms and animals, are an important source of active ingredients for drugs due to their unique chemical properties and bioactivities. Secondary metabolites, also known as specialized metabolites, are particularly significant. Although they are not essential for survival (producer organisms can grow without synthesizing them), these organic compounds often have bioactive properties and are thus receiving greater attention from the scientific community.
Advancements in the strategies and equipment used for the identification of compounds have facilitated the discovery of natural products. The growing interest in natural products is driven by the urgent need for new drugs to combat infectious diseases that still persist around the world.
This Special Issue welcomes original research and reviews on the chemical and biotechnological aspects of natural products. We seek the submission of papers on, but not limited to, the following:
- The extraction, purification, identification, and structural and stereostructural elucidation of compounds from plants, microorganisms and animals;
- Antimicrobial and antiviral investigations of natural products;
- Applications of natural products in human and veterinary medicine.
Dr. Maria Michela Salvatore
Dr. Anna Andolfi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioactive compounds
- specialized metabolites
- metabolomics
- antiviral activity
- antimicrobial activity
- infectious diseases
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