Novel Biomaterials and Active Compounds from Sea Cucumbers
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials of Marine Origin".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 93
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomaterials; sea cucumbers; protein; marine by-products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our great pleasure to introduce this Special Issue of Marine Drugs, entitled “Novel Biomaterials and Active Compounds from Sea Cucumbers”. Sea cucumber research has been increasing in the past decades, with a very wide body of scientific results already being accumulated on the functional composition of many tropical, as well as temperate, water species. A new FAO guide on the “Commercially Important Sea Cucumbers of the World” was published in 2023 with all the recent information regarding both tropical and temperate water species. However, sufficient genetic, translational and drug development information is still lacking for sea cucumbers, as is biomaterial-related research. In addition, most available biological and functional knowledge was derived from tropical sea cucumber species, while the temperate and cold-water species still require further attention.
Therefore, we cordially invite you to contribute to this Special Issue with your original research or comprehensive review articles covering the advances in sea cucumber biomaterials, these materials’ interactions with human cells, bioinformatics studies and the development of novel antimicrobial peptide drugs, antifreeze compounds or other bioactive compounds (including enzymes) of pharmaceutical and nutritional importance.
Dr. Miroslava Atanassova
Dr. Jan Sunde
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- collagen
- fucoidan
- antimicrobial peptides
- antifreeze compounds
- bioinformatics for drug development
- sea cucumbers
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