World Aquaculture 2021

May 24 - 27, 2022

Mérida, Mexico

BIOACTIVITY POTENTIAL AND DRUGLIKENESS OF NATURAL PRODUCTS FROM MARINE ORGANISMS

Marina Puncec, Višnja Stepanic, Tomislav Šmuc
Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
e-mail: smuc@irb.hr

 



 Natural products (NP) are  enourmous,  still largely unexplored resource of molecules with potentially therapeutic properties. More than 90 % of  Earth  species live in the marine environments, providing

 vast  structural  diversity  and  bioactivity potential of NPs associated with marine organisms . By investigating  these  organisms new compounds with applications  in agriculture, medicine and various  biotechnological processes

may be discovered. While  plants  and  terrestrial  microorganisms  have  been more explored for new chemical entities so far, the increasing number of new  drug  candidates and drugs from  marine organisms  is showing that this resource  will be o f major interest in the future. Computational approaches  offer  a  scalable, early approach  for evaluating of

bioactivity potential of large chemical space of natural products. We provide here a large scale, qualitative breakdown of properties of small molecules ( less than 800 Da) stemming from different organisms and compare them against current drugs and nutraceuticals. We used COCONUT  [1] (natural products)  and DrugBank [2] (drugs and nutraceuticals) as sources of compounds, PASS software [3] to provide bioactivity estimates and Classyfire WEB service [4] to structuraly classify compounds.

Table 1. depicts major structure-bioactivity profiles of compounds from different origins, with their rough druglikenes assessment. Using more rigorous computational (AI, machine learning based ) approaches we are working  to provide deeper structural-biaoctivity assessment of the compounds originating in marine organisms.