Antitumour bioactive peptides isolated from marine organisms

Antitumor Peptides from Marine Organisms

The biodiversity of the marine environment and the associated chemical diversity constitute a practically unlimited resource of new antitumor agents in the field of the development of marine bioactive substances. In this review, the progress on studies of antitumor peptides from marine sources is provided. The biological properties and mechanisms of action of different marine peptides are descr...

Bioactive Peptides from Marine Sources-A Review

--Marine organisms represent a valuable source of new compounds. The biodiversity of the marine environment and the associated chemical diversity constitute a practically unlimited resource of new active substances in the field of the development of bioactive products. In this paper, the molecular diversity of different marine peptides is described as well as information about their biological ...

Screening of Bioactive peptides from marine microbes

Biological activities and potential health benefits of bioactive peptides derived from marine organisms.

Marine organisms have been recognized as rich sources of bioactive compounds with valuable nutraceutical and pharmaceutical potentials. Recently, marine bioactive peptides have gained much attention because of their numerous health beneficial effects. Notably, these peptides exhibit various biological activities such as antioxidant, anti-hypertensive, anti-human immunodeficiency virus, anti-pro...

Bioactive substances isolated from marine sponge, a miniature conglomerate of various organisms

Due to their unusual living environment as compared with terrestrial organisms, marine organisms, such as sponge, octocoral, tunicate and bryozoan, metabolite and produce a variety of substances which often have various unprecedented chemical structures and exhibit significant biological activities. These bioactive constituents may offer interesting subjects of studies in view of bioorganic che...