About this Research Topic
Due to their unique physiological and metabolic properties, marine microorganisms have emerged as a valuable source of bioactive natural products. In the last 60 years, marine microorganisms have produced many valuable compounds, some of which have been developed into successful human-use drugs. Natural products produced from marine microorganisms have a wide range of bioactivity, including anticancer, antibacterial, and immunosuppressive capabilities, and have tremendous potential for agricultural and medicinal uses. In addition, new bioactive natural compounds from marine microorganisms have been discovered using genetic modification technology.
This research topic invites submissions of any contributions on bioactive natural products isolated from marine microorganisms or produced using synthetic biology techniques, with a focus on bioactivity screening, novel natural product discovery, structural characterization, genome mining, elucidation of biosynthetic pathways, genomics- and metabolomics-driven studies, and their potential applications.
We accept the following types of manuscripts: original research manuscripts, reviews, methods papers, perspectives that fall within any themes related to marine microorganisms biotechnology including bioactive natural products from marine microorganisms and their unique chemistry, different techniques used to enhance the productivity of certain bioactive compounds by marine microorganisms, novel bioactive nanoformulations that can be produced from marine microorganisms-derived natural products, and the applications of biomaterials and biopolymers derived from marine microorganisms.
This research topic invites submissions of any contributions on bioactive natural products isolated from marine microorganisms or produced using synthetic biology techniques, with a focus on bioactivity screening, novel natural product discovery, structural characterization, genome mining, elucidation of biosynthetic pathways, genomics- and metabolomics-driven studies, and their potential applications.
We accept the following types of manuscripts: original research manuscripts, reviews, methods papers, perspectives that fall within any themes related to marine microorganisms biotechnology including bioactive natural products from marine microorganisms and their unique chemistry, different techniques used to enhance the productivity of certain bioactive compounds by marine microorganisms, novel bioactive nanoformulations that can be produced from marine microorganisms-derived natural products, and the applications of biomaterials and biopolymers derived from marine microorganisms.
Keywords: natural products, marine microorganisms, in vitro assay, molecular modeling, in vivo assay, synthetic biology
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