Secondary Metabolites from Microorganisms, or Microorganism-Host Interaction?
A special issue of Biology (ISSN 2079-7737). This special issue belongs to the section "Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 32852
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biosynthesis; biological activity; microbial metabolites; microbe–host reaction
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Interests: marine phytoplankton; marine microbial ecology; marine microzooplankton
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Microbial bioactive secondary metabolites are not involved in any essential such as like cell division or vegetative growth of microbes. However, they play an important role in human health, nutrition, and sustainable environment. Bioactive substances including antibiotics, antiviral agents, anticancer agents, immunosuppressive agents, antioxidants, enzyme inhibitors, plant growth hormones, etc. are highly important for applications in medicine, industry, and agriculture.
Due to a lack or insufficiency of compound precursors, gene silencing, and other factors, the biosynthesis of secondary metabolites from microorganisms has been limited. We propose in this Special Issue to collect research results on biosynthesis secondary metabolites.
Microbial secondary metabolites are functionally diverse and show a variety of biological activities; therefore, in this Special Issue, studies on the active mechanism of microbial secondary metabolites are welcome to be included. Moreover, studies on the interaction between microbes and hosts mediated by secondary metabolites are invited to this Special Issue.
Dr. Fengli Zhang
Prof. Dr. Michel Denis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biosynthesis
- biological activity
- microbe-host reaction
- secondary metabolite
- marine phytoplankton
- marine microbial ecology
- marine microzooplankton