Marine Bioinorganic and Bioorganic Chemistry
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 7203
Special Issue Editor
Interests: bacterial–algal and bacterial–bacterial interactions; chemical communication; iron uptake and storage; the bioinorganic chemistry of other inorganic trace elements, including boron and the halogens, in the marine environment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The marine environment is an especially important one, given that the world’s oceans cover over 70% of the earth’s surface and was likely the birthplace of life as we know it, and is undergoing profound changes due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere. While marine bacteria and algae make up the vast majority of the oceans’ biomass and are the base of the oceanic food chain, the world’s oceans are also home to a wide range of invertebrates, many of which have yielded new and valuable natural products. These organisms not only mold and shape marine chemistry but are in turn affected by it and are thus a storehouse of unique and novel biomolecules whose structure, function, etc. can be very different from terrestrial counterparts. This Special Issue aims at collecting original contributions and comprehensive reviews on topics such as the uptake, transport, and storage of trace elements in the marine environment as well as a determination of their functions, studies on novel marine metalloenzymes, their structures and mechanisms of action, the isolation, synthesis, and characterization of marine natural products, as well as studies of their function and biological roles, discovery of molecules involved in intra- and interspecies and/or kingdom communications, etc. These topics are meant to be broadly defined, the unifying factor being a marine origin. If you are working on any of these or related areas of marine chemistry, please consider contributing to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Carl J. Carrano
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Marine chemistry
- Natural products
- Trace elements
- Metalloenzymes
- Chemical communication
- Isolation
- Mechanisms of action
- Biological role
- Biosynthesis
