Marine Natural Products from the Yucatan Peninsula
Mexico is one of the three areas of the world with the greatest terrestrial and cultural biological diversity. The diversity of Mexican medicinal flora has been studied for a long time and several bioactive compounds have been isolated. The investigation of marine resources, and particularly the pot...
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| author | Dawrin Pech-Puch Mar Pérez-Povedano Oscar A. Lenis-Rojas Jaime Rodríguez Carlos Jiménez |
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| description | Mexico is one of the three areas of the world with the greatest terrestrial and cultural biological diversity. The diversity of Mexican medicinal flora has been studied for a long time and several bioactive compounds have been isolated. The investigation of marine resources, and particularly the potential of Mexican marine resources, has not been intensively investigated, even though the Yucatan Peninsula occupies 17.4% of the total of the Mexican coast, with great biological diversity in its coasts and the ocean. There are very few studies on the chemistry of natural products from marine organisms that were collected along the coasts of the Yucatan Peninsula and most of them are limited to the evaluation of the biological activity of their organic extracts. The investigations carried out on marine species from the Yucatan Peninsula resulted in the identification of a wide structural variety of natural products that include polyketides, terpenoids, nitrogen compounds, and biopolymers with cytotoxic, antibacterial, antifouling, and neurotoxic activities. This review describes the literature of bioprospecting and the exploration of the natural product diversity of marine organisms from the coasts of the Yucatan Peninsula up to mid-2019. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6c4d941a472e4d9fbcd5b547c9fd2c2d2022-12-22T01:58:28ZengMDPI AGMarine Drugs1660-33972020-01-011815910.3390/md18010059md18010059Marine Natural Products from the Yucatan PeninsulaDawrin Pech-Puch0Mar Pérez-Povedano1Oscar A. Lenis-Rojas2Jaime Rodríguez3Carlos Jiménez4Centro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) e Departmento de Química, Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, SpainCentro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) e Departmento de Química, Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, SpainCentro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) e Departmento de Química, Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, SpainCentro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) e Departmento de Química, Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, SpainCentro de Investigacións Científicas Avanzadas (CICA) e Departmento de Química, Facultade de Ciencias, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, SpainMexico is one of the three areas of the world with the greatest terrestrial and cultural biological diversity. The diversity of Mexican medicinal flora has been studied for a long time and several bioactive compounds have been isolated. The investigation of marine resources, and particularly the potential of Mexican marine resources, has not been intensively investigated, even though the Yucatan Peninsula occupies 17.4% of the total of the Mexican coast, with great biological diversity in its coasts and the ocean. There are very few studies on the chemistry of natural products from marine organisms that were collected along the coasts of the Yucatan Peninsula and most of them are limited to the evaluation of the biological activity of their organic extracts. The investigations carried out on marine species from the Yucatan Peninsula resulted in the identification of a wide structural variety of natural products that include polyketides, terpenoids, nitrogen compounds, and biopolymers with cytotoxic, antibacterial, antifouling, and neurotoxic activities. This review describes the literature of bioprospecting and the exploration of the natural product diversity of marine organisms from the coasts of the Yucatan Peninsula up to mid-2019.https://www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/18/1/59natural productsyucatan peninsulamarine biodiversity |
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| title | Marine Natural Products from the Yucatan Peninsula |
| title_full | Marine Natural Products from the Yucatan Peninsula |
| title_fullStr | Marine Natural Products from the Yucatan Peninsula |
| title_full_unstemmed | Marine Natural Products from the Yucatan Peninsula |
| title_short | Marine Natural Products from the Yucatan Peninsula |
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| topic | natural products yucatan peninsula marine biodiversity |
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