Marine Bioactive Peptides: Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Potential
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2019) | Viewed by 109447
Special Issue Editor
Interests: marine natural products; marine peptides; innate immunity; host defense peptides; molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial and anticancer activity; structure elucidation; structure-function relationship; bioengineering; drug design; peptide antibiotics; peptide anticancer agents; drug resistance; bioorganic chemistry; biotechnology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue, “Marine Bioactive Peptides: Structure, Function, and Therapeutic Potential" will include up-to-date information regarding bioactive peptides isolated from marine organisms. Marine peptides have been found in various phyla, and their numbers have grown in recent years. These peptides are diverse in structure and possess broad-spectrum activities that have great potential for medical applications. Various marine peptides are evolutionary ancient molecular factors of innate immunity that play a key role in host defense. A plethora of biological activities, including antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, anticancer, anticoagulant, endotoxin-binding, immune-modulating, etc., make marine peptides an attractive molecular basis for drug design. This Special Issue will present new results in the isolation, structural elucidation, functional characterization, and therapeutic potential evaluation of peptides found in marine organisms. Chemical synthesis and biotechnological production of marine peptides and their mimetics will also be a focus of this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Tatiana V. Ovchinnikova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- marine peptides
- structure
- function
- chemical synthesis
- biotechnological production
- therapeutic potential
- antibacterial
- antifungal
- antiviral
- anticancer
- anticoagulant
- endotoxin-binding
- host defense
- innate immunity
- peptide drugs
- toxins
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