Marine Biocatalysts

Dear Colleagues,

Marine habitats harbor a large number of still undescribed organisms and, thus, represent a vast source of valuable bioactive compounds, rare metabolites, and new enzymes. This Special Issue will focus on enzymes from marine organisms with a potential use in biocatalysis or applied microbiology. Of interest, are papers describing enzymes and interactions between enzymes and inhibitors or ligands, as well as bioprospecting, omics, structural, and mechanistic studies. In the last years, investigation of the marine habitats has led to the discovery of organisms with compelling characteristics, such as the ability of carbohydrate conversion and plastic or polymer degradation and of living in extreme environments (extremophile organisms), together with their respective enzymes. However, much has still to be discovered, in particular in relation to biocatalysis. For example, the varied environmental conditions of marine habitats have promoted the evolution of organisms producing enzymes with features such as thermo-tolerance (thermo-stability or cold adaptivity), high stability under high pressure (barophilicity), or tolerance towards salts, among others. These enzymes are certainly interesting for both basic and applied research, and understanding their structure–function relationships may allow their exploitation in the industry.

Dr. Dirk Tischler
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Marine Drugs is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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• Enzyme mining
• Biocatalysis
• Biotransformation
• marine biotechnology
• natural products
• biodiversity
• bioprospecting