Marine natural products

AR Carroll, BR Copp, RA Davis, RA Keyzers… - Natural product …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
This review covers the literature published in 2019 for marine natural products (MNPs), with
719 citations (701 for the period January to December 2019) referring to compounds …

Antimicrobial peptides: a new frontier in antifungal therapy

G Buda De Cesare, SA Cristy, DA Garsin, MC Lorenz - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Invasive fungal infections in humans are generally associated with high mortality, making
the choice of antifungal drug crucial for the outcome of the patient. The limited spectrum of …

[HTML][HTML] CyanoMetDB, a comprehensive public database of secondary metabolites from cyanobacteria

MR Jones, E Pinto, MA Torres, F Dörr, H Mazur-Marzec… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Harmful cyanobacterial blooms, which frequently contain toxic secondary metabolites, are
reported in aquatic environments around the world. More than two thousand cyanobacterial …

Phycocyanin, a super functional ingredient from algae; properties, purification characterization, and applications

TJ Ashaolu, K Samborska, CC Lee, M Tomas… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Phycocyanins (PCYs) are a group of luxuriant bioactive compounds found in blue-green
algae with an estimated global market of about US $250 million within this decade. The …

Cyanobacteria—From the oceans to the potential biotechnological and biomedical applications

SAM Khalifa, ES Shedid, EM Saied, AR Jassbi… - Marine Drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms which represent a significant
source of novel, bioactive, secondary metabolites, and they are also considered an …

Cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins in a changing environment: Concepts, controversies, challenges

I Chorus, J Fastner, M Welker - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Concern is widely being published that the occurrence of toxic cyanobacteria is increasing
in consequence of climate change and eutrophication, substantially threatening human …

The diversity of cyanobacterial toxins on structural characterization, distribution and identification: A systematic review

X Du, H Liu, L Yuan, Y Wang, Y Ma, R Wang, X Chen… - Toxins, 2019 - mdpi.com
The widespread distribution of cyanobacteria in the aquatic environment is increasing the
risk of water pollution caused by cyanotoxins, which poses a serious threat to human health …

Marine cyanobacteria and microalgae metabolites—A rich source of potential anticancer drugs

A Mondal, S Bose, S Banerjee, JK Patra, J Malik… - Marine Drugs, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer is at present one of the utmost deadly diseases worldwide. Past efforts in cancer
research have focused on natural medicinal products. Over the past decades, a great deal of …

The essentials of marine biotechnology

A Rotter, M Barbier, F Bertoni, AM Bones… - Frontiers In marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Coastal countries have traditionally relied on the existing marine resources (eg, fishing,
food, transport, recreation, and tourism) as well as tried to support new economic endeavors …

Engineering strategies and applications of cyanobacterial exopolysaccharides: A review on past achievements and recent perspectives

S Debnath, M Muthuraj, TK Bandyopadhyay… - Carbohydrate …, 2024 - Elsevier
Cyanobacteria are ideally suited for developing sustainable biological products but are
underdeveloped due to a lack of genetic tools. Exopolysaccharide (EPS) is one of the …