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Marine biotoxins may pose a threat to the human consumption of seafood and seafood products. The increasing global trade and higher demand for seafood products worldwide represents a challenge for food safety authorities, policy makers, food business operators, and the scientific community, in particular, researchers devoted to environmental sciences, toxicology, and analytical chemistry. In addition, due to changes in climate conditions and technological developments, new and emerging marine toxins are being detected in regions where they were previously unknown. This Special Issue highlight studies aiming to the develop detection methods for marine biotoxins for better understanding the dynamics of accumulation/elimination of marine biotoxins and their effects on marine organisms, as well as toxin exposure studies that aim to evaluate the risks associated with the consumption of contaminated seafood.

mass mortality --- marine biotoxin --- n/a --- alamethicin --- synergy --- seafood toxin --- patulin --- Paralytic shellfish toxin --- greater blue-ringed octopus --- Alexandrium catenella --- paralytic toxicity --- Ishigaki Island --- depuration --- okadaic acid --- serum biomarker --- ecotoxicological responses --- Hapalochlaena lunulata --- sydowinin A --- purification --- PSP outbreak --- southern Chile --- posterior salivary gland --- saxitoxin --- harmful algal blooms --- gliotoxin --- seafood safety --- uptake --- immunoaffinity column --- Alexandrium --- sydowinol --- chronic exposure --- environmental neurotoxin --- assimilation --- shellfish --- LC-MS --- biotransformation --- Perna viridis --- domoic acid --- fish --- algal toxin --- warming --- tetrodotoxin --- Mesodesma donacium --- combination index --- ultrahigh high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

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This book summarizes the importance of peptide–membrane interactions, mostly aiming at developing new therapeutic approaches. The experimental and computational methodologies used to investigate such interactions reveal the evolution of existing biophysical methodologies, shedding some light on potential applications of peptides, as well as on the improvement of their design. Understanding the determinants for peptide–membrane interactions may also improve the knowledge of membrane functions such as the membrane transport, fusion, and signaling processes, contributing to the development of new agents for highly relevant applications ranging from disease treatment to food technology.

tachyplesin --- host defense peptide --- anticancer --- antimicrobial --- antibiofilm --- peptide-membrane interaction --- structure-activity --- model membranes --- nuclear magnetic resonance solution structure --- accelerated molecular dynamics --- alamethicin --- membrane --- peptaibol --- cell-penetrating peptide --- peptide–lipid interaction --- lipid model systems --- molecular dynamics --- NMR --- membrane biophysics --- antimicrobial peptides --- non-lytic peptides --- bacterial membranes --- calcium hydroxide --- chemokine --- human beta defensin-3-C15 --- human dental pulp cell --- Streptococcus gordonii lipoprotein --- luffa sponge --- phosphopeptide --- mass spectrometry --- Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization --- solid-phase extraction --- surface plasmon resonance --- melittin --- liposomes --- peptide–lipid interactions --- anti-microbial peptides --- pore-forming peptides --- ESKAPE pathogens --- Staphylococcus aureus --- KR12 --- LL-37 --- lipopeptide --- critical aggregation concentration --- CD spectroscopy --- biofilm --- cytotoxicity --- organisms --- sequence analysis --- machine learning --- feature selection --- sesame protein --- ACE inhibitory peptides --- simulated gastrointestinal digestion --- amino acid sequence --- molecular docking --- chionodracines --- circular dichroism --- membrane affinity --- cell-penetrating peptides --- circular dichroism spectroscopy --- atomic force microscopy --- mycolic acid --- Langmuir monolayer --- drug–peptide conjugates --- metastasis model of B16F10 melanoma --- Pisum sativum defensin 1 (Psd1) --- anti-metastatic activity --- glucosylceramide (GlcCer) --- cyclin F --- anti-inflammatory peptide --- cell permeable peptide --- heparin-binding peptide --- collagen-induced arthritis --- inducible nitric oxide --- interferon gamma --- interleukin-6 --- Enbrel