Presentation 2: Drugs From
the Sea
I. Introduction
- History
- Biological
activities
II. Evolution of bioactive compounds
- Evolution of
organisms
- Non non motile
benthic organisms
III. Collection of specimens
- Obtain permits
- Find sites
- Sorting
- Documentation
- Put aside one sample for
taxonomy studies
- Store sample
- prepare crude samples
for screening
IV. Development of Clavulones
- Prostanoids
- Clavulones
- Halogenated clavulones
V. Prostanoids from Clavularia
viridis
VI. Difficulties with drug development
- Low yields
- Difficulty and expense
harvesting
- Difficult isolation
and extructutral elucidation
- Impractical synthetic
routes
- No industria support
VII. Enviroment and Conservation
- Coral reefs crisis
- Japanese efforts
-Conservation methods to
produce marine natural products