Bioactive Compounds from Marine Plants
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2019) | Viewed by 6062
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The oceans represent a huge unexplored resource and harbor a tremendous variety of flora and fauna. The marine environment offers a new frontier for research and attracts scientists from different disciplines, such as organic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, pharmacology, biology and ecology. Although the field of marine natural products is a relatively new area of research, because of the difficulties involved in collecting samples, it has already proven to be a productive source of biologically-active natural products. The development of SCUBA in the 1960s, and more recently submersible vehicles, have allowed easy access to both shallow- and deep-water marine organisms for studies by natural product chemists.
Many marine-derived secondary metabolites are structurally complex with unique functionalities and possess pronounced biological activity. This is due in part to an extreme and harsh living environment, with high ionic concentrations, high pressure, variable temperatures, a lack of light, as well as low nutrient availability. As conditions in the ocean are so markedly distinct, the chemistry produced by its inhabitants is also quite varied. While terrestrial sources of pharmaceuticals and biochemicals have been considerably explored, less than one percent of marine species have been examined for the production of novel chemistry. Thus, the oceans represent a rich and still largely untapped resource for biologically active compounds. In addition, completely unknown biochemical pathways in pathogens or disease may be discovered and targeted by such unique chemotypes, leading to the development of novel therapeutics.
Dr. Eric Andrianasolo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bioactive compounds
- anticancer agents
- antimicrobial agents
- marine organisms
- bio-assay
- structure elucidation
