Blue Biotechnology From Gene to Bioactive Product /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Müller, Werner E. G. (Editor), Schröder, Heinz C. (Editor), Wang, Xiaohong (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, 55
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Molecular biology.; Pharmacology.; Biotechnology.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Animal genetics.; Life Sciences.; Animal Biochemistry.; Cell Biology.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Molecular Medicine.; Animal Genetics and Genomics.
• Physical Description: XI, 314 p. 176 illus., 72 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319512846
• ISSN: 0079-6484 ;

This book describes the discovery of molecules from unexploited extreme marine environments, and presents new approaches in marine genomics. It combines the current state of knowledge in marine genomics and advanced natural products’ chemistry to pursue the sustainable production of novel secondary metabolites (lead compounds), as well as pharmacologically active peptides/proteins, with antimicrobial, neuroprotective, anti-osteoporotic, anti-protozoan/anti-plasmodial, anti-ageing and immune-modulating effects. Further, it employs molecular-biology-based approaches and advanced chemical techniques to obtain and to select candidate compounds for pre-clinical and clinical studies.