Marine Natural Products that Target Enzymatic Pathway
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2019) | Viewed by 370
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine natural products; marine toxins; biosynthesis; NMR spectroscopy; protein-ligand interactions; inhibition of phosphatases
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Many marine organisms have evolved over the years to be able to produce a variety of bioactive substances to help them survive through chemical-mediated mechanisms. Due to their novelty to researchers, many of these molecules have shown a wide variety of hitherto unknown activities and enzymatic targets. As a consequence, marine natural products hold great promise for the development of new drugs, or may serve as highly valuable pharmacological tools for assigning functions to the enzymes involved in intricate biochemical routes. These applications are of great interest, since living organisms possess a huge number of uncharacterized enzymes. Molecules such as okadaic acid or cyclotheonamides are well-known successful examples.
The aim of this Marine Drugs Special Issue is to assemble contributions focused on finding new molecules from marine natural sources, elucidating their structure and synthesis/biosynthesis routes, as well as their potential use to delineate biochemical and cellular functions of enzymes. Review articles must include peer-reviewed literature from at least the last five years.
As Guest Editor of this Special Issue of Marine Drugs, I invite scientists working in any field involving bioactive marine natural products targeting enzymatic activities to submit recent research that may lead to significant advances.
Dr. Antonio Hernández Daranas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Natural Product
- Enzyme
- Inhibitor
- Bioactivity
- Synthesis
- Biosynthesis
- Structure Elucidation
- Mechanism of Action
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