Bioactive Compounds from Natural Immune Systems of Marine Invertebrates
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397). This special issue belongs to the section "Marine Pharmacology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1433
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The immune response is an integrated system of biological processes and structures in invertebrates that recognizes and fights pathogens. This defense mechanism relies on several classes of immune receptors, which sense pathogen-associated molecular patterns and induce sophisticated signaling and cell involvement, based on dynamic feedback-regulated interactions among a number of components (genes, transcripts, metabolites, and proteins). Further studies of the natural immune mechanisms of marine invertebrates need to cover the knowledge gaps regarding the hierarchically organized set of molecular, cellular, and organismal networks involved in these universal immune interactions with pathogens. Natural immune response studies in marine invertebrates, through a wide-ranging approach (transcriptomic, miRNome analysis, proteomics, metabolomics, and in silico analyses), are a keystone to better understand the complexity of the net underlying an immune response and identify the novel potential bioactive molecules used to design and develop new bioactive compounds. In fact, in the last year, aquatic invertebrates have become a major source of biomaterials and bioactive natural products that can have antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anti-cancers, neuroactive, nutraceutics, cosmetics, antibiotics, antifouling products, biomaterials, and even food storage applications.
In this Special Issue, we welcome all types of studies addressing natural immune response molecules, non-coding RNAs, mechanisms, and signaling and regulation pathways that can lead to identifying bioactive molecules in marine invertebrates derived via experimental and in silico research.
Prof. Aiti Vizzini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- innate immunity
- marine invertebrate
- transcriptomic
- non-coding RNAs
- proteomics
- metabolomic
- in silico analyses
- marine natural products
