Exploring the Antimicrobial Resistance Potential of Plant-Derived Compounds
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2025 | Viewed by 1238
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural product chemistry; chromatography; phytochemicals; natural product isolation; extraction; natural product drug discovery; compound isolation; NMR structure elucidation; mass spectrometry; metabolomics
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Interests: phytochemistry; chromatography; antimalarial compounds; semi-synthetic natural products; extraction and isolation; natural product drug discovery; compound isolation; NMR structure elucidation; mass spectrometry; metabolomics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit original research manuscripts, review articles or communications to the Special Issue titled “Exploring the Antimicrobial Resistance Potential of Plant-derived Compounds”.
In the field of public health, one of the present principal emergencies is antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which poses a significant global health threat. Since bacterial resistance to antimicrobials is mediated by a few core mechanisms, plant-derived natural products can play a crucial role in fighting multi-drug resistance because they can act as antibacterial agents through a variety of modes of action that target these resistant mechanisms and other pathways necessary for bacterial survival. Ongoing research in the phytochemistry field is imperative to identify, isolate, and characterize novel antimicrobial compounds from plants. In addition, modern techniques, such as metabolomics and bioinformatics, can aid in the discovery of promising candidates.
Specifically, we are interested in new research identifying the chemical structures and evaluating the antimicrobial potential of natural and semi-synthetic nature-inspired small molecules. Furthermore, as Guest Editors of this Special Issue, we encourage the submission of research papers describing the modern approaches of phytochemical analysis based on chemical dereplication, finger-printing, metabolomic studies and molecular networking. Comprehensive review papers that synthesize the current knowledge on this topic are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Giuseppina Chianese
Dr. Carmina Sirignano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antimicrobial resistance
- secondary metabolites
- metabolomics
- NMR
- extraction
- structure elucidation
- LC/MS
- biological activity
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