1st Edition

Anti-Coronavirus Marine Bioactive Compounds

Edited By Jen-Tsung Chen Copyright 2026
464 Pages 21 Color & 23 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

464 Pages 21 Color & 23 B/W Illustrations
by Apple Academic Press

This unique volume summarizes emerging approaches based on in silico, in vitro, in vivo, and clinical studies to uncover the potential and the underlying mechanisms of diverse marine bioactive compounds to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 and its variants and, hence, pave the way for drug discovery devoted to the management of COVID-19. Investigating a range of natural compounds for their anti-SARS-CoV-2... Read more

1. Marine Bioactive Compounds as Efficient Antiviral Agents Against SARS-CoV-2: An Overview

Debapriya Dutta, Ramansu Goswami, Sangita Lahiri, Sangjukta Roy, Ankita Chakraborty, and Suprabhat Mukherjee

2. Marine Bioactive Compounds for Combating SARS-CoV-2 Variants in the Post-Epidemic Era: A Molecular Insight and Prospects

Arockia Doss Cibile, Puzhakkal Abhirami, Natarajan Pushpa, Chenniappan Anchana Devi, Kannan Vijayarani, Asirvatham Alwin Robert, Jen-Tsung Chen, and Arumugam Vijaya Anand

3. Marine Bioactive Compounds as Potential Anti-COVID-19 Medications

Varshita Srivastava and Dhaneshwar Prusty

4. Marine Polysaccharides as Broad-Spectrum Drugs Against Coronaviruses

Anand Kumar Pandey and Shalja Verma

5. Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Activity of Marine Terpenoids: The Mode of Action on Protein Targets

Nidhilangelo M M and Ranjith Kumavath

6. Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Activity of Marine Bacteria-Derived Compounds: The Mode of Action

Amany A. Thabet and Fadia S. Youssef

7. The Role of Marine Bacteria-Derived Bioactive Compounds in COVID-19 Management

Supti Das, Dwaipayan Sinha, Sukanya Chatterjee, Arindam Ganguly, Arpan De, Aqsa Majgaonkar, Zoofishan Kazi, Arun Kumar Maurya, Muhammad Sohail, and Nisha Bhat

8. Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Potential of Marine Fungi-Derived Compounds and Their Roles in COVID-19 Treatment

Eman Shawky and Dina S. Ghallab

9. Algae-Derived Marine Bioactive Compounds Against COVID-19

Saloni Joshi, Aditi Tyagi, Vijeta Prakash, and Reema Gabrani

10. The Potential Role of Marine Seaweeds in the Management of COVID-19

Ravichandran Sneha, Parthiban Akshaya, Esakkimuthu Balaji, Asirvatham Alwin Robert, Shanmugam Velayuthaprabhu, Madhavan Shenbagam, Puzhakkal Abhirami, and Arumugam Vijaya Anand

11. The Role of Marine Sponge-Derived Bioactive Compounds in COVID-19 Management

Arun Bahadur Gurung and Atanu Bhattacharjee

12. Anti-SARS-CoV2 Bioactive Compounds Derived from Marine Sponges: A Mechanistic Insight into Their Inhibitory on Protein Targets

Badrinarayanan Varalakshmi, Purushothaman Gajalakshmi, Vasudevan Suganya, Thiruvengadam Abarna, Gunasekaran Raveena, Veeramalai Sathya Priya, Chandrashekar Mamtha, Ramasamy Manikandan, Shanmugam Ramya, and Arumugam Vijaya Anand

13. Astaxanthin and Its Effect on SARS-CoV-2

S Aruna Sharmili, S. Jayashree, K Sonia, G Mayakkannan, S Shruthi, and Sekar Vijaykumar

14. Holyrine A, a Marine Indole-Alkaloid with Promising Pan-Inhibition Activity Against SARS-CoV-2

Rania Hamdy, Imene Lazreg, Yasmina Lashine, Mohamed I. Husseiny, and Sameh S. M. Soliman

15. A Marine Bioactive Compound Fistularin-3 Against SARS-CoV-2 and the Underlying Mechanism

Shivani Pathak, Kalpana Patni, and Neha Garg

16. Potential Role of Marine Bioactive Compounds Against the Main Protease and RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase of SARS-CoV-2

Kushagra Dubey and Raghvendra Dubey

17. Marine Natural Products with anti-SARS-CoV-2 Activity in Southeast Asia

Sora Yasri and Viroj Wiwanitkit

Biography

Jen-Tsung Chen, PhD, is a Professor of Cell Biology at the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan, where he teaches genomics, proteomics, plant physiology, and plant biotechnology. Dr. Chen's research interests include bioactive compounds, chromatography techniques, plant molecular biology, plant biotechnology, bioinformatics, and systems pharmacology. He is an active editor of academic books and journals in an effort to advance the exploration of multidisciplinary knowledge involving plant physiology, plant biotechnology, nanotechnology, ethnopharmacology, systems biology, and drug discovery. He serves as an editorial board member and a guest editor for several reputed journals. Dr. Chen has published books in collaboration with international publishers on diverse topics such as drug discovery, herbal medicine, medicinal biotechnology, nanotechnology, bioengineering, plant functional genomics, plant speed breeding, CRISPR-based plant genome editing, and artificial intelligence. He has been included in the list of the World's Top 2% Scientists 2023 by Stanford University.