Marine Natural Products with Immunomodulatory Activity

Dear Colleagues,

Marine natural products represent a huge source of bioactive metabolites with peculiar and diversified chemical structures. These characteristics make substances of marine origin particularly suitable for pharmacological analysis and development. Many studies to date have proven that marine compounds present promising immunomodulatory activities, thus representing precious leads in drug discovery. These molecules can stimulate and/or modulate the immune system, including both the adaptive and innate response, paving the way for new possibilities in the pharmacological treatment of several diseases, both as vaccine adjuvants and as new drugs. This Special Issue will cover all drug-discovery research of immunomodulatory marine natural products, potentially including their isolation, structure characterization, biological properties, and mechanism of action, as well as synthetic strategies for the preparation of related analogues in view of biological optimization.

Dr. Emiliano Manzo
Guest Editor

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• marine natural products
• drug discovery
• immune system
• immunomodulatory activity
• immune activation
• immune modulation
• structural characterization
• chemical synthesis