Lipid Profiling (Lipidome) of Marine Organisms
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 November 2019) | Viewed by 4165
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Marine Lipidomics; Mass spectrometry; Marine macrophytes; Marine Lipids
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2. Mass Spectrometry Centre & LAQV-REQUIMTE, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: lipidomics; mass spectrometry; marine lipids; algae lipids
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Lipids are major components of marine organism, as main constituents of cell membranes, as signalling molecules and as energy source. Different marine organisms have their specific lipidome, that can be used to chemophenotyping, traceability and as biomarkers of trophic chains in marine ecosystems, or even to disclose the nutritional value or prospect bioactive compounds. Lipidome of marine organisms is largely unknown, due to the great biochemical diversity and the presence of large number of different molecular lipid species. Moreover, lipid composition may shift among species, origin of organisms, the environmental and the availability of nutrients. Modern lipidomics approaches allow to overcome this challenge to decode and map the whole lipidome of marine organisms.
This Special Issue of Marine Drugs entitled “Lipid profiling (Lipidome) of marine organisms” aims to provide a comprehensive lipidomics analysis of a great variety of marine organisms to identify lipid molecular species with add value and health-promoting properties for biotechnological applications as nutraceuticals, functional food or supplements in food and pharma industries. The decoding of lipid profile of marine organisms can also allow to establish and develop networks on lipid biochemistry in marine organisms to be applied for traceability and assignment of geographic origin.
As Guest Editors, we invite colleagues working on marine lipids and their applications to contribute to this Special Issue of Marine Drugs with interesting papers filling the existing gap on the knowledge of the marine organisms lipidome.
Dr. Elisabete Maciel
Dr. Tânia Melo
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Marine Lipids
- Lipidomics
- Marine organisms
- Fatty Acids
- Phospholipids
- Glycolipids
- Sterols
- Mass spectrometry
