Alkaloids in Future Drug Discovery
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2021) | Viewed by 48853
Special Issue Editor
Interests: natural products chemistry; isolation and structure elucidation; hemi-synthesis of plant-derived compounds; bioactive compounds; anticancer compounds; multidrug resistance (MDR); ABC transporter modulators; P-glycoprotein; antibacterial compounds
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Dear Colleagues,
Natural products, bearing privileged scaffolds, have been playing a crucial role in drug discovery and development. Alkaloids, biosynthesized by both marine and terrestrial organisms, are among the largest classes of natural products.
Owing to their huge chemical diversity and complexity, coupled with their broad range of biological activities, this group of secondary metabolites has long deserved a great amount of interest from natural product chemists and medicinal chemists.
This Special Issue on “Alkaloids in Future Drug Discovery” invites researchers to contribute with original research or review articles focused on biologically relevant natural alkaloids or semisynthetic derivatives.
Prof. Dr. Maria José U. Ferreira
Guest Editor
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