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Kahalalides: Bioactive Peptides from a Marine Mollusk Elysia rufescens and Its Algal Diet Bryopsis sp.

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This article is published in ChemInform.The article was published on 1997-01-28. It has received 86 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Bryopsis.

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Drug development from marine natural products

TL;DR: The history of drug discovery from marine natural products is reviewed, and by describing selected examples, the factors that contribute to new discoveries and the difficulties associated with translating marine-derived compounds into clinical trials are examined.
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Medicinal and pharmaceutical uses of seaweed natural products: A review

TL;DR: The literature was searched for natural products from marine macroalgae in the Rhodophyta, Phaeophyta and Chlorophyta with biological and pharmacological activity and substances that currently receive most attention from pharmaceutical companies for use in drug development, or from researchers in the field of medicine-related research include: sulphated polysaccharides as antiviral substances.
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Drugs from the deep: marine natural products as drug candidates.

TL;DR: Marine microorganisms, whose immense genetic and biochemical diversity is only beginning to be appreciated, look likely to become a rich source of novel chemical entities for the discovery of more effective drugs.
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Plant-derived compounds in clinical trials.

TL;DR: The plant-based drug discovery resulted mainly in the development of anticancer and anti-infectious agents and continues to contribute to the new leads in clinical trials as of September 2007.
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Bioactive proteins, peptides, and amino acids from macroalgae

TL;DR: An overview of the important bioactive amino‐acid‐containing compounds that have been identified in macroalgae and the potential of macroalgal proteins as substrates for the generation of biofunctional peptides for utilization as functional foods to provide specific health benefits will be discussed.
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Kahalalides: Bioactive Peptides from a Marine Mollusk Elysia rufescens and Its Algal Diet Bryopsis sp.(1).

TL;DR: Six new peptides are described, including kahalalide F, which are cyclic depsipeptides, ranging from a C(31) tripeptide to aC(75) tridecapeptide isolated from a sacoglossan mollusk, Elysiarufescens.
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