title: Advanced tools in marine natural drug discovery.
abstract: Marine natural products (MNPs) remain promising drug sources with several marine-derived drugs having been successfully approved. Nevertheless, it is never a smooth sailing to seek bioactive compounds from marine environments, during which many challenges are need to be faced to, for example, discovering unique marine resources, reviving unculturable organisms outside the marine environment, distinguishing novel compounds from the known ones, and disclosing the function of MNPs and optimizing their pharmacological use. Herein we review some advanced techniques and methodologies that can be employed to deal with above challenges with the intent of inspiring the forthcoming efforts in MNPs discovery pipelines.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China.
authors.forename: Guojian
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China.
authors.forename: Tianjiao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China.
authors.forename: Qianqun
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Marine Drugs, Chinese Ministry of Education, School of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China. Electronic address: dehaili@ouc.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Dehai
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D059001:Aquatic Organisms / Q000378:metabolism*; D001688:Biological Products / Q000378:metabolism*; D055808:Drug Discovery / Q000379:methods*; D005821:Genetic Techniques; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D013058:Mass Spectrometry
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products