Marine Fungal Metabolites: Structures, Activities and Biosynthesis
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 46882
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine natural product chemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine Fungi associated with marine alga, sponge, invertebrates, and sediments dwell in highly competitive environments. Most of them have evolved fungal-specific metabolic pathways to produce a diversified extent of metabolites ranging from antibiotics to mycotoxins that are traditionally termed secondary metabolites or natural products which have consistently delivered numerous lead structures for the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and other life science applications. They are well-known to harbor an enormous biosynthetic potential. From an ecological point of view marine fungal secondary metabolites may be one of the key linkages to understand the interrelationships between fungi and the environment.
With the advent of new molecular biology tools and new methods for structural analysis, the landscape for the discovery and understanding of the structures, functions and biosynthesis of marine fungal secondary metabolites has changed dramatically during the last decade.
We invite submissions of manuscripts relevant to the structures, activities and biosynthesis of marine fungal natural products.
Prof. Dr. Bin Wu
Prof. Dr. Ikuro Abe
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Marine Fungi
- Secondary metabolites
- Structures
- Biosynthesis
- Bioactivity
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