Bio-Active Products from Mangrove Ecosystems 2.0

Dear Colleagues,

Mangrove communities represent a coastal habitat located in the intertidal zone or brackish water of tropical and subtropical coastal areas between 5°N and 5°S latitudes spanning over 118 countries. Special ecological conditions of mangroves include high salinity, nutrient limitation, tidal gradients, high temperatures, excessively high light, and muddy anaerobic or sandy soil, which lead to various morphological and physiological adaptations of inhabiting species and act as an effective selector for metabolic pathways via the generation of unique functional metabolites with highly unique chemical scaffolds and pharmaceutical application potential. In recent decades, numerous metabolites with uncommon structures and efficacious bioactivities have been discovered in mangrove-derived microorganisms, along with mangrove plants. For this reason, mangrove ecosystems have earned the most attention from organic chemists and pharmacologists as an attractive biodiversity hotspot. Additionally, many unique and novel chemical structures with a wide range of structural classes have various biosynthetic origins containing novel functional genes and corresponding enzymes with unique catalytic functions. In this Special Issue, we welcome articles on recent studies and pertinent reviews that focus on the latest and most important developments in bioactive product discovery from mangrove ecosystems and correlating structures with chemical synthesis, biosynthesis, genomic and metabolomics approaches, biological activities, and pharmaceutical mechanisms. We are now in the process of assembling a group of top researchers whose work we would like to feature in this collection, and we would like you to participate.

Prof. Dr. Jing Xu
Guest Editor

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• mangrove ecosystems
• bio-active products
• signaling pathway
• chemical synthesis and biosynthesis
• genomic and metabolomics approaches

• Bio-Active Products from Mangrove Ecosystems in Marine Drugs (11 articles)