Antiviral Effects and Molecular Mechanisms of Marine Compounds
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Biotechnology Related to Drug Discovery or Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 2248
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, the constant outbreak of emerging or reemerging viral diseases has caused serious harm to human health. Despite the success of approved antiviral drugs, drug resistance, toxicity, and cost remained unresolved issues. Hence, the development of novel antiviral agents is of high importance. Recently, the studies on the antiviral activities of marine natural products are attracting increasing attention all over the world. Marine natural products can reveal uncommon and rare structure features and pharmacological activities that are not found in the terrestrial environment, which is helpful to find antiviral agents with novel targets that can be used alone or in combination with existing drugs.
This Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive and advanced publication platform for studies concerning all aspects of antiviral research of marine natural compounds. We invite academic and industry scientists to submit reviews and original research articles that highlight the antiviral activities and molecular mechanisms of known or novel marine compounds. We also welcome articles that describe the recent progress in research on marine-derived antiviral agents in clinical trials, relating to their structural features and clinical applications.
Dr. Wei Wang
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Marine Drugs is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- marine polysaccharides
- marine peptides
- secondary metabolites
- structure features
- structure–activity relationship
- antiviral effects
- mechanism of action
- molecular target
- drug resistance
