Terpenes and Polyketides of Marine Origins
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 1516
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The marine environment harbors millions of macro- and micro-organisms, which produce a plethora of novel secondary metabolites. To date, more than 20,000 new compounds have been isolated from marine organisms in various countries around the world, many of which are currently the subject of pharmaceutical evaluation and preclinical research.
Terpenes and polyketides are the two most common natural organic compounds found in the ocean, and are mainly derived from seaweed, sponges, soft corals, mollusks, and micro-organisms. Most of these marine terpenes and polyketides are bioactive substances with interesting structures and unique physiological functions.
This Special Issue will focus on terpenes and polyketides of marine origin, including, but not limited to, the isolation–structure elucidation of new substances, the evaluation of their bioactivities, the clarification of their mechanism of action, as well as their biosynthesis and chemical synthesis.
Dr. Fandong Kong
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- terpenes
- polyketides
- marine natural products
- new substances
- bioactivities
- mechanism of action
