Recent Advances in the Discovery of Novel Drugs on Natural Molecules, Second Edition
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Discovery, Development and Delivery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 202
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Interests: food proteins; bioactive peptides; natural antimicrobials; biofilms; bacterial physiology; proteomics
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Interests: microbiology; biotechnology; antibiotics; fermentation; natural compounds
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Interests: computer-aided drug design; predictive toxicology; chemoinformatics; artificial intelligence; digital platforms
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With this Special Issue, we intend to collect all contributions regarding the discovery of new natural molecules with biological activity for therapeutic aims. Since drug discovery is still one of the fundamental pillars of modern medicine, the urgency in seeking new natural compounds or reusing old drugs for new therapeutic solutions is always a current topic. In this regard, the application of synthetic biology with all its multidisciplinary aspects (bioinformatics, data mining, pathway refactoring, cell factories, DNA editing, and computational chemistry) allows for the revelation of novel drug molecules from microbial strains or bioresources that might otherwise escape notice when using classical top-down strategies. Here, with this Special Issue, we wish to make such studies visible and open new pathways toward the more efficient and targeted enhancement of natural compounds for drug development.
Dr. Laura Quintieri
Dr. Leonardo Caputo
Prof. Dr. Orazio Nicolotti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural compounds
- bioactive peptides
- peptidomimetics
- microbial metabolites
- polyphenols
- genome mining
- molecular modeling
- therapeutic uses
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