Marine Glycomics 2nd Edition
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2024) | Viewed by 19903
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Interests: antimicrobial peptides; bivalves; defense peptides; immunity; molecular evolution
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Interests: glycobiology; apoptosis; biochemistry; marine biology; marine lectin
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Interests: glycobiology; lectins; marine invertebrates
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the success of our 1st Special Issue on the topic of “Marine Glycomics, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs/special_issues/Marine_Glycomics”, we would like to renew the call for a 2nd Special Issue, which will welcome the submission of original manuscripts dealing with the theme of marine glycomics. Although these may include classic glycobiology approaches, studies which make use of bioinformatics for genomic or transcriptomic analyses aimed at the discovery of novel glycan-binding molecules are also welcome.
In the early stages of life and biological evolution, living organisms assembled a limited number of molecules in a bricolage fashion and used them to develop novel biological properties and adapt to new environments. As a fundamental molecule of life, carbohydrates have been exploited as glycans, acquiring a key role as structural determinants in cell-cell recognition processes.
In light of their importance in all living systems, understanding the biological role played by glycan-related molecules in the marine environment has a great potential, both for elucidating the impressive biodiversity of marine organisms and for discovering new drugs. Therefore, glycomics approaches may be focused on giant viruses, archaea, bacteria, protists, algae, fungi, and animals to discover new glycan-related molecules.
These studies might refine the importance of weak molecular interactions via carbohydrate–carbohydrate recognition, a fundamental biological reaction. Along with the elucidation of the biological activities of novel marine glycans, another desirable aim of marine glycomics studies would be to clarify the crucial physiological roles played by lectins in carbohydrate-protein interactions.
The investigation of the correlation between the physiological functions of these molecules and drug efficacy through simulations also represents a sustainable perspective for the design of next-generation drugs based on marine glycan-related molecules, which may be applied in the therapy and diagnostics of cancer, as well as of infectious or lifestyle diseases.
Original research manuscripts, comprehensive review papers, and future perspective articles are all welcome in this Special Issue.
Dr. Marco Gerdol
Dr. Yuki Fujii
Prof. Dr. Yasuhiro Ozeki
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cell signaling
- deep-sea
- glycomics
- infections
- lectins
- oligosaccharides
- origins of life
- polysaccharides
- structure of glycans
- transcriptome
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