Bioprospecting of Marine and Terrestrial Organisms for New Therapeutics
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular and Translational Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 1653
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Interests: genomics; phylogeny; biochemistry; genome bioprospecting
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Interests: marine bioprospecting; sea anemone venoms; combinatorial peptide libraries; recombinant peptides
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bioprospecting for biologically active natural products is a well-known tool used in the early stages of drug discovery. The choice of a source for bioprospecting plays an important role in research efforts that is more likely to lead to new drugs. Unique ecosystems unexplored to date such as tundra, desert, salt marshes, and groundwater or mangrove forests are valuable sources of novel products. Advances in high-throughput omics technologies such as proteomics, genomics, and metabolomics have offered wide opportunities for bioprospecting and drug discovery, allowing thousands of molecules to be analyzed simultaneously. Marine ecosystems are an untapped reservoir of biodiversity with enormous potential for bioprospecting of pharmacologically active compounds. As Guest Editors of the Special Issue titled “Genomic Bioprospecting of Marine Species for New Therapeutics” we clearly recognize that marine genome-based bioprospecting is a very new trend. However, we are seeing progress in studies of marine natural products from marine microorganisms due to their biosynthetic gene identification and marine venomous animals due to their transcriptomic studies.
As Guest Editors of the updated Special Issue of Biomedicines named "Bioprospecting of Marine and Terrestrial Organisms for New Therapeutics", we would like to invite scientists who deal with marine or terrestrial bioprospecting to make a highly desirable contribution to nature-derived drug discovery.
Dr. Marina P. Isaeva
Dr. Elena Leychenko
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- bioprospecting
- marine and terrestrial resources
- drug discovery
- natural products
- peptides
- gene-based screening
- biosynthetic gene cluster
- genome mining
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