We warmly invite you to read selected papers in the field of structural studies on marine natural products published in Marine Drugs (ISSN: 1660-3397).

“Cellulamides: A New Family of Marine-Sourced Linear Peptides from the Underexplored Cellulosimicrobium Genus”
by Mariana Girão, José Murillo-Alba, Jesús Martín, Ignacio Pérez-Victoria, Ricardo B. Leite, Ralph Urbatzka, Pedro N. Leão, Maria F. Carvalho and Fernando Reyes
Mar. Drugs 2024, 22(6), 268; https://doi.org/10.3390/md22060268
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/22/6/268

“Lemneolemnanes A–D, Four Uncommon Sesquiterpenoids from the Soft Coral Lemnalia sp.”
by Yuan Zong, Tian-Yun Jin, Jun-Jie Yang, Kun-Ya Wang, Xing Shi, Yue Zhang and Ping-Lin Li
Mar. Drugs 2024, 22(4), 145; https://doi.org/10.3390/md22040145
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/22/4/145

“New Rare Triterpene Glycosides from Pacific Sun Star, Solaster pacificus, and Their Anticancer Activity”
by Timofey V. Malyarenko, Alla A. Kicha, Alexandra S. Kuzmich, Olesya S. Malyarenko, Anatoly I. Kalinovsky, Roman S. Popov, Pavel S. Dmitrenok, Natalia V. Ivanchina and Valentin A. Stonik
Mar. Drugs 2024, 22(1), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/md22010019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/22/1/19

“Advanced Methods for Natural Products Discovery: Bioactivity Screening, Dereplication, Metabolomics Profiling, Genomic Sequencing, Databases and Informatic Tools, and Structure Elucidation”
by Susana P. Gaudêncio, Engin Bayram, Lada Lukić Bilela, Mercedes Cueto, Ana R. Díaz-Marrero, Berat Z. Haznedaroglu, Carlos Jimenez, Manolis Mandalakis, Florbela Pereira, Fernando Reyes et al.
Mar. Drugs 2023, 21(5), 308; https://doi.org/10.3390/md21050308
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/21/5/308

“Structural Manipulations of Marine Natural Products Inspire a New Library of 3-Amino-1,2,4-Triazine PDK Inhibitors Endowed with Antitumor Activity in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma”
by Daniela Carbone, Michele De Franco, Camilla Pecoraro, Davide Bassani, Matteo Pavan, Stella Cascioferro, Barbara Parrino, Girolamo Cirrincione, Stefano Dall’Acqua, Stefania Sut et al.
Mar. Drugs 2023, 21(5), 288; https://doi.org/10.3390/md21050288
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/21/5/288

“Challenging Structure Elucidation of Lumnitzeralactone, an Ellagic Acid Derivative from the Mangrove Lumnitzera racemosa”
by Jonas Kappen, Jeprianto Manurung, Tristan Fuchs, Sahithya Phani Babu Vemulapalli, Lea M. Schmitz, Andrej Frolov, Andria Agusta, Alexandra N. Muellner-Riehl, Christian Griesinger, Katrin Franke et al.
Mar. Drugs 2023, 21(4), 242; https://doi.org/10.3390/md21040242
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/21/4/242

“New Alkylpyridinium Anthraquinone, Isocoumarin, C-Glucosyl Resorcinol Derivative and Prenylated Pyranoxanthones from the Culture of a Marine Sponge-Associated Fungus, Aspergillus stellatus KUFA 2017”
by Fátima P. Machado, Inês C. Rodrigues, Luís Gales, José A. Pereira, Paulo M. Costa, Tida Dethoup, Sharad Mistry, Artur M. S. Silva, Vitor Vasconcelos and Anake Kijjoa
Mar. Drugs 2022, 20(11), 672; https://doi.org/10.3390/md20110672
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/20/11/672

“Unusual Tetrahydropyridoindole-Containing Tetrapeptides with Human Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Targeting Activity Discovered from Antarctica-Derived Psychrophilic Pseudogymnoascus sp. HDN17-933”
by Xuewen Hou, Changlong Li, Runfang Zhang, Yinping Li, Huadong Li, Yundong Zhang, Han-Shen Tae, Rilei Yu, Qian Che, Tianjiao Zhu et al.
Mar. Drugs 2022, 20(10), 593; https://doi.org/10.3390/md20100593
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/20/10/593

“Approaches to Configuration Determinations of Flexible Marine Natural Products: Advances and Prospects”
by Zong-Qing Huo, Feng Zhu, Xing-Wang Zhang, Xiao Zhang, Hong-Bao Liang, Jing-Chun Yao, Zhong Liu, Gui-Min Zhang, Qing-Qiang Yao and Guo-Fei Qin
Mar. Drugs 2022, 20(5), 333; https://doi.org/10.3390/md20050333
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/20/5/333

“NMR-Based Configurational Assignments of Natural Products: Gibbs Sampling and Bayesian Inference Using Floating Chirality Distance Geometry Calculations”
by Stefan Immel, Matthias Köck and Michael Reggelin
Mar. Drugs 2022, 20(1), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/md20010014
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/20/1/14

You are welcome to read more papers in this area published in the Marine Drugs Section “Structural Studies on Marine Natural Products” at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/marinedrugs/sections/marine_natural_product_chemistry. This Section of Marine Drugs focuses on novel articles and reviews reporting on the isolation, structure elucidation and bioactivity assays of natural products from marine resources, including marine-derived macro- and microorganisms, as well as marine plants (e.g., algae, seagrasses, phytoplankton and mangroves).