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a relatively newly discovered class of proteins called cyclotides, with several interesting types of biological activities. The compound cycloviolacin O2 is represented as a ribbon structure in this cover illustration. In the second half of 2014, it is planned to feature an unusual cover illustration to be supplied by Dr. Christine Salomon, of the University of Minnesota. This will show a photograph of the hut of Sir Ernest Shackleton in Antarctica from the early 20th century, of which the presentday fungal contaminants have been investigated by Dr. Salomon and her colleagues for the drug discovery potential of their secondary metabolites present.
he Editors of the Journal of Natural Products wish to welcome Dr. Steven M. Swanson, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, as a new Associate Editor as of January 2014. Dr. Swanson has many years of experience in working on the biological testing aspects of natural products research and will handle specifically manuscripts submitted to this journal submitted on purified structurally defined natural products that have a biological and/or mechanism of action focus. Dr. Swanson will be replacing Richard G. Powell, who resigned in 2013 after 23 years of outstanding service as Associate Editor and who will be named as “Honorary Editor” on the journal masthead for the next two years as a token of our appreciation of his efforts in enhancing the quality of our publication. In March of 2014, the special issue of the Journal of Natural Products will honor Prof. Dr. Otto Sticher, of ETH-Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich, Switzerland. For many years, Prof. Sticher ran a large and successful group working in the areas of pharmacognosy and phytochemistry. Not only did he train many younger scientists, but he also attended the annual meetings of the American Society of Pharmacognosy (ASP) for over a quarter of a century and, as a consequence, became well known to his colleagues in North America. He has been named as both an Honorary Member and Fellow of ASP. The Guest Editors for this special issue are Drs. Jimmy Orjala, Matthias Hamburger, Deniz Tasdemir, and myself, all of whom have spent several months to several years working in Prof. Sticher’s laboratory in the past. We are thrilled at the number of papers that have been submitted from colleagues based in Europe and elsewhere for this special issue. Since 2001, the selection of our Arthur E. Schwarting and Jack L. Beal Awards for best annual papers in the Journal of Natural Products is now a well-established activity. Open access is provided for all winners of these two prestigious awards on the journal web page (http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jnprdf). The winning papers for 2012 (as selected in 2013) were as follows: Schwarting Award (open to all corresponding authors): Xiaoying Bian, Alberto Plaza, Youming Zhang, and Rolf Müller, Luminmycins A−C, Cryptic Natural Products from Photorhabdus luminescens Identified by Heterologous Expression in Escherichia coli (J. Nat. Prod. 2012, 75, 1652−1655; doi 10.1021/np300444e); Beal Award (for contributions submitted by a younger investigator as corresponding author): Nahyun Kim, Kemok Kim, DongHyuck Lee, Yoo-Soo Lee, KyongHwan Bang, Seon-Woo Cha, Jae Won Lee, Hyung-Kyoon Choi, Bang Yeon Hwang, and Dongho Lee, Nontargeted Metabolomics Approach for Age Differentiation and Structure Interpretation of Age-Dependent Key Constituents in Hairy Roots of Panax ginseng (J. Nat. Prod. 2012, 75, 1777−1784; doi 10.1021/np300499p). We congratulate Prof. Dr. Müller and Dr. Lee and their coauthors on their success. The first of two journal cover illustrations in 2014, as provided by Prof. Ulf Göransson, of Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, shows a collage of plants belonging to the family Violaceae, which has proved to be an abundant source of © 2014 American Chemical Society and American Society of Pharmacognosy
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A. Douglas Kinghorn, Editor-in-Chief
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