An updated review on marine anticancer compounds: The use of virtual screening for the discovery of small-molecule cancer drugs

V Ruiz-Torres, JA Encinar, M Herranz-Lopez… - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Marine secondary metabolites are a promising source of unexploited drugs that have a wide
structural diversity and have shown a variety of biological activities. These compounds are …

Marine fungi: A source of potential anticancer compounds

SK Deshmukh, V Prakash, N Ranjan - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Metabolites from marine fungi have hogged the limelight in drug discovery because of their
promise as therapeutic agents. A number of metabolites related to marine fungi have been …

A RaPID way to discover nonstandard macrocyclic peptide modulators of drug targets

T Passioura, H Suga - Chemical Communications, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Studies of the fundamental nature of RNA catalysis and the potential mechanism of a shift
from the “RNA world” to proteinaceous life lead us to identify a set of ribozymes (flexizymes) …

Cyclic peptides in pipeline: what future for these great molecules?

L Costa, E Sousa, C Fernandes - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cyclic peptides are molecules that are already used as drugs in therapies approved for
various pharmacological activities, for example, as antibiotics, antifungals, anticancer, and …

Nonribosomal peptides from marine microbes and their antimicrobial and anticancer potential

S Agrawal, D Acharya, A Adholeya… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Marine environments are largely unexplored and can be a source of new molecules for the
treatment of many diseases such as malaria, cancer, tuberculosis, HIV etc. The Marine …

Current status and future prospects of marine natural products (MNPs) as antimicrobials

A Choudhary, LM Naughton, I Montánchez… - Marine drugs, 2017 - mdpi.com
The marine environment is a rich source of chemically diverse, biologically active natural
products, and serves as an invaluable resource in the ongoing search for novel …

Marine pharmacology in 2016–2017: Marine compounds with antibacterial, antidiabetic, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antiprotozoal, antituberculosis and antiviral …

AMS Mayer, AJ Guerrero, AD Rodríguez… - Marine drugs, 2021 - mdpi.com
The review of the 2016–2017 marine pharmacology literature was prepared in a manner
similar as the 10 prior reviews of this series. Preclinical marine pharmacology research …

Peptides, peptidomimetics, and polypeptides from marine sources: a wealth of natural sources for pharmaceutical applications

R Sable, P Parajuli, S Jois - Marine drugs, 2017 - mdpi.com
Nature provides a variety of peptides that are expressed in most living species. Evolutionary
pressure and natural selection have created and optimized these peptides to bind to …

The landscape of natural product diversity and their pharmacological relevance from a focus on the Dictionary of Natural Products®

F Chassagne, G Cabanac, G Hubert, B David… - Phytochemistry …, 2019 - Springer
Nature is considered a prolific source of diverse biologically active chemotypes. While most
reviews have focused on the characteristics of the chemical backbones of natural products …

Microbial secondary metabolites: recent developments and technological challenges

BP Singh, ME Rateb, S Rodriguez-Couto… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Microbial secondary metabolites, like antibiotics, pigments, growth hormones, antitumor
agents, and others, are not essential for the growth and development of microorganism, but …