Marine natural products

AR Carroll, BR Copp, RA Davis, RA Keyzers… - Natural Product …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review covers the literature published between January and December in 2018 for
marine natural products (MNPs), with 717 citations (706 for the period January to December …

Advances in exploring the therapeutic potential of marine natural products

X Liang, D Luo, H Luesch - Pharmacological research, 2019 - Elsevier
Marine natural products represent novel and diverse chemotypes that serve as templates for
the discovery and development of therapeutic agents with distinct mechanisms of action …

Targeting regulatory T cells for immunotherapy in melanoma

L Huang, Y Guo, S Liu, H Wang, J Zhu, L Ou… - Molecular biomedicine, 2021 - Springer
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are essential in the maintenance of immunity, and they are also a
key to immune suppressive microenvironment in solid tumors. Many studies have revealed …

Nature-derived peptides: a growing niche for GPCR ligand discovery

E Muratspahić, M Freissmuth, CW Gruber - Trends in pharmacological …, 2019 - cell.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) represent important drug targets, as they regulate
pivotal physiological processes and they have proved to be readily druggable. Natural …

Advances in CXCR7 modulators

N Lounsbury - Pharmaceuticals, 2020 - mdpi.com
CXC chemokine receptor 7 (CXCR7) is a G-protein-coupled receptor that signals through
the β-arrestin pathway. Its ligands include interferon-inducible T cell α chemoattractant …

Preventing morphine-seeking behavior through the re-engineering of vincamine's biological activity

VM Norwood IV, AC Brice-Tutt, SO Eans… - Journal of medicinal …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Innovative discovery strategies are essential to address the ongoing opioid epidemic in the
United States. Misuse of prescription and illegal opioids (eg, morphine, heroin) has led to …

Heterologous production of cyanobacterial compounds

D Dhakal, M Chen, H Luesch… - Journal of Industrial …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cyanobacteria produce a plethora of compounds with unique chemical structures and
diverse biological activities. Importantly, the increasing availability of cyanobacterial genome …

Amantamide C, an Antitrypanosomal Linear Lipopeptide from a Marine Okeania sp. Cyanobacterium

N Watanabe, G Jeelani, T Nozaki, A Iwasaki - ACS omega, 2024 - ACS Publications
Amantamides are lipopeptides that act as selective CXC chemokine receptor 7 agonists and
modulate spontaneous calcium oscillations in primary cultured neocortical neurons. We …

Progress in the discovery and development of anticancer agents from marine cyanobacteria

H Luesch, EK Ellis, QY Chen, R Ratnayake - Natural Product Reports, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering 2010–April 2024 There have been tremendous new discoveries and
developments since 2010 in anticancer research based on marine cyanobacteria. Marine …

Rapid Discovery of Substances with Anticancer Potential from Marine Fungi Based on a One Strain–Many Compounds Strategy and UPLC-QTOF-MS

YT Wu, XN Zhao, PX Zhang, CF Wang, J Li, XY Wei… - Marine Drugs, 2023 - mdpi.com
The secondary metabolites of marine fungi with rich chemical diversity and biological activity
are an important and exciting target for natural product research. This study aimed to …