Marine Microorganisms Bioprospecting
A special issue of Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 51
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine fungi; marine natural products; pharmacological mechanism
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marine microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, and microalgae, are recognized as important sources of pharmacologically active metabolites. Marine habitats, such as the deep sea, hydrothermal vents, cold springs, and polar regions, have led marine microorganisms to evolve unique metabolic pathways to cope with the conditions related to special environments of high competition. The utilization of bioactive compounds from marine microorganisms as health products results in a crucial advancement in the field of healthcare and wellness. With the advent of new analytical methods and multi-omics technologies, the current screening for promising natural products and their research and development in the pharmaceutical pipeline have increased. More and more new enzymatic and pharmacological mechanisms of active metabolites from marine microorganisms are expected to be revealed.
This Special Issue aims to collect papers on the most recent findings in the field of “Marine Microorganisms Bioprospecting”. We are interested in new data on the new collection of marine microbial resources, isolation, structural identification, modification, activity screening, and biosynthetic pathways of secondary metabolites as well as their pharmacological mechanisms. Comprehensive review papers of the latest active compounds of marine microbial origin are also welcome.
Dr. Junfeng Wang
Dr. Qingbo Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- marine microorganisms
- marine natural products
- bioactivity screening
- structure-activity relationship
- genome mining
- natural product biosynthesis
- biocatalysis
- metabolic engineering
- synthetic biology
- pharmacological mechanisms
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