Secondary Metabolites Synthesis in Microorganisms

Secondary metabolites from marine microorganisms.

After 40 years of intensive research, chemistry of marine natural products has become a mature field. Since 1995, there are signals of decreased interest in the search of new metabolites from traditional sources such as macroalgae and octocorals, and the number of annual reports on marine sponges stabilized. On the contrary, metabolites from microorganisms is a rapidly growing field, due, at le...

The Metabolites of Food Microorganisms

Secondary Metabolites

Secondary metabolites are organic molecules that are not involved in the normal growth and development of an organism. While primary metabolites have a key role in survive of the species, playing an active function in the photosynthesis and respiration, absence of secondary metabolites does not result in immediate death, but rather in long-term impairment of the organism’s survivability, often ...

Biosynthesis of Chemical Signals – De Novo Synthesis and Secondary Metabolites

Secondary metabolites from marine microorganisms and therapeutic efficacy: A mini review

Marine ecosystem, covering over 70% of the Earth's area, is the place for a wide variety of animal and plant species whose number greatly exceeds that of terrestrial ones. Amongst those biodiversity, microbial world represents a potential research object to be explored as the recent investigations on marine microbes have given the impact to the entire world as a source of bioactive metabolites ...