Isolation, Identification, and Bioactivity of Polyketides from Marine Microorganisms
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 January 2025 | Viewed by 139
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine; microorganism; natural products; antibacterial; drug development
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Dear Colleagues,
The purpose of this Special Issue is to report the latest and high-quality research works or reviews related to natural polyketides from marine-derived microorganisms. We warmly invite researchers all over the world working on polyketides from marine microbes to contribute to this Special Issue.
Polyketides, produced by microbes, plants and animals, are a large class of important natural products with structurally intriguing carbon skeletons, such as macrolides, polyenes, enediynes and polyethers. They have been reported to display various biological and pharmacological activities and are widely used as clinical drugs for antibiotics, antiparasitics, immunosuppressants and antitumoral agents. Normally, polyketides are biosynthesized from acetyl-CoA units undergoing a sequence of linkage catalyzed by polyketide synthases (PKSs). Currently, an increasing number of researchers pay attention to the discovery, bioactive screening and biosynthesis of polyketides, which will promote the application of polyketides.
We would like to invite academic and industry scientists to contribute to this Special Issue by submitting their valuable work and knowledge on the isolation, structure elucidation, bioactive screening or biosynthesis of polyketides from marine microorganisms.
We would like to invite academic and industry scientists to contribute to this Special Issue by submitting their valuable work and knowledge on the isolation, structure elucidation, bioactive screening or biosynthesis of polyketides from marine microorganisms.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Isolation and structural identification of marine-sourced polyketides;
Bioactivity of polyketides from marine environments;
Mechanism of polyketides from marine sources;
Biosynthesis of polyketides from marine environments;
Development and industrial research of marine-derived polyketides.
Dr. Xiuli Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine-derived microorganisms
- polyketides
- isolation and structural elucidation
- biosynthesis
- bioactivities
- mode of action
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