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SUBMITTER: Suarez-Jimenez GM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3397454 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Suarez-Jimenez Guadalupe-Miroslava GM Burgos-Hernandez Armando A Ezquerra-Brauer Josafat-Marina JM
Marine drugs 20120426 5
Biologically active compounds with different modes of action, such as, antiproliferative, antioxidant, antimicrotubule, have been isolated from marine sources, specifically algae and cyanobacteria. Recently research has been focused on peptides from marine animal sources, since they have been found as secondary metabolites from sponges, ascidians, tunicates, and mollusks. The structural characteristics of these peptides include various unusual amino acid residues which may be responsible for the ...[more]