Improvements and Opportunities on Natural Products for Novel Drug Discovery
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Natural Products Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2023) | Viewed by 36578
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ethnopharmacology; medicinal plants; phytochemistry; natural products
Interests: natural product biological activity, in vivo pharmacological evaluation; medicinal chemistry
Interests: natural products chemistry; synthesis of natural products; medicinal chemistry; alkaloids
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Dear colleagues,
Natural products are produced in nature, so it is straightforward and rational to believe that all of them have biological roles and have naturally evolved to be more valuable and effective. The generation of diversity in natural products has occurred not only within the limitations of available biosynthetic reactions and precursors but also in the context of biological utility, as a tool to understand, in depth, the biosynthetic routes for different compounds in different types of organisms. These kinds of substances and their derivatives are crucial as a pharmacotherapeutic tool on human health.
This Special Issue is dedicated to contributions on several aspects of drug discovery as essential mainstays on the innovation of new therapeutic agents, and the necessity in obtaining novel natural compounds, as well as the current reuse of known natural/derivative drugs with new therapeutic patterns. Traditional natural product chemistry has evolved, connecting but not limited to several other areas—for example, improved analytical tools, bioinformatic, omics, data mining, computational tools, genome mining, synthetic biology, and advances in microbial cultures. These interdisciplinary relationships open new opportunities for drug discovery.
Prof. Dr. María Isabel Calvo
Prof. Dr. Maria Luisa Kennedy
Dr. Francisco Leon
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Mode of action
- Natural products
- Repurpose drugs
- Bioinformatics
- Computational tools
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