Marine Natural Products with Antimicrobial Activity
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine-Derived Ingredients for Drugs, Cosmeceuticals and Nutraceuticals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 91
Special Issue Editor
2. Center Laboratory, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570311, China
Interests: quorum sensing; antimicrobial resistant; pathogens
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antibiotic resistance poses a substantial threat to animal and human health, food security, and global environments. These mainly “ESKAPE” pathogens (Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter spp.) have the potential to ‘escape’ antibiotics and are responsible for the majority of nosocomial infections. All these ESKAPE pathogens have already been stipulated as “critical” pathogens listed by the World Health Organization (WHO), emphasizing the urgent need for the research and development of novel antibacterial agents to combat them. However, these pathogens can form biofilms and produce virulence factors though cell–cell communications under diverse conditions, causing chronic diseases and antibiotics resistance.
The focus of this Special Issue will be to highlight the potential of marine natural products as antimicrobial agents against, including but not limited to, ESKAPE pathogens, empathizing the diversity of the molecular targets and the mechanistic effects. The application of innovative scientific approaches, including co-cultures and 3D culture models of ESKAPE, to subvert the gap between in vitro and in vivo experiments is encouraged. Approaches describing synergistic combination treatments of marine compounds with traditional antimicrobials are welcome.
As compounds with antimicrobial functions are well-known, publications describing the antimicrobial activity of such marine compounds alone or in combination with traditional antimicrobials are welcomed for submission.
For this Special Issue, we invite academic and industry scientists to submit comprehensive reviews and novel research articles highlighting the biological activities of known or novel marine compounds with a potential antimicrobial activity.
Prof. Dr. Aiqun Jia
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial
- antibiotics
- ESKAPE
- biofilms
- cell–cell communication
- marine natural products.
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