Marine Alkaloids: Sources, Discovery, Diversity, and Bioactivities
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Structural Studies on Marine Natural Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 108
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine natural products; fungi; seaweeds; anti-neurodegenerative; bioactivities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Alkaloids have been serving as an important drug source for a long time, with 80% of the top 200 marketed drugs globally being alkaloids. Likewise, alkaloids are the largest marine natural product family considering both the reported compound numbers and bioactive compound numbers. Structurally diverse alkaloids are isolated from various marine plants, invertebrates, microorganisms, fishes, etc. Their functions cover, but are not limited to, anti-cancer, anti-microbial, pesticidal, neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory activities, and preventing cardiovascular diseases. Regarding the investigation of marine alkaloids, studies are increasingly being performed on their new sources and structural diversity, application of new discovering approaches such as genome mining and metabolomics tools, and an in-depth revealing of signal transduction pathway-intervening diseases.
For this Special Issue, we invite academic and industry scientists to submit reviews and original and conceptual research articles highlighting the source, discovery, diversity and bioactivities of marine alkaloids. We particularly welcome articles that introduce new research methodologies in marine alkaloid discovery and the bioactivity study of marine alkaloids in neuronal system diseases.
Prof. Dr. Yi Zhang
Dr. Zhongji Qian
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- marine alkaloids
- source
- structural elucidation
- metabolomics
- molecular networking
- NMR
- methodology
- bioactivities
- mechanism of action
- signal transduction
