Marine Drugs (Aug 2014)

Marine Sponge Derived Natural Products between 2001 and 2010: Trends and Opportunities for Discovery of Bioactives

  • Mohammad Ferdous Mehbub,
  • Jie Lei,
  • Christopher Franco,
  • Wei Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/md12084539
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 8
pp. 4539 – 4577

Abstract

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Marine sponges belonging to the phylum Porifera (Metazoa), evolutionarily the oldest animals are the single best source of marine natural products. The present review presents a comprehensive overview of the source, taxonomy, country of origin or geographical position, chemical class, and biological activity of sponge-derived new natural products discovered between 2001 and 2010. The data has been analyzed with a view to gaining an outlook on the future trends and opportunities in the search for new compounds and their sources from marine sponges.

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