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Cite This: J. Nat. Prod. 2018, 81, 1−1
Changes for Volume 81
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Since 2001, the Journal of Natural Products has made two awards for the best papers published in the journal in the previous year. In 2017, the winning paper from 2016 selected for the Arthur E. Schwarting Award (open to all papers) for our journal was by Silas Anselm Rasmussen, Sebastian Meier, Nikolaj Gedsted Andersen, Hannah Eva Blossom, Jens Øllgaard Duus, Kristian Fog Nielsen, Per Juel Hansen,* and Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen,* Chemodiversity of Ladder-Frame Prymnesin Polyethers in Prymnesium parvum (J. Nat. Prod. 2016, 79, 2250−2256; doi 10.1021/acs.jnprod.6b00345). The second of the two awards, the Jack L. Beal Award, which is restricted to younger corresponding authors who are within 12 years of receiving their Ph.D. degree or 10 years of gaining their first professional appointment, was given for the contribution by Nathan P. Lavey, Jesse A. Coker, Eliza A. Ruben, and Adam S. Duerfeldt,* Sclerotiamide: The First Non-Peptide-Based Natural Product Activator of Bacterial Caseinolytic Protease P (J. Nat. Prod. 2016, 79, 1193−1197; doi 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b01091). The respective corresponding authors of these outstanding articles, Professors Hansen and Larsen and Dr. Duerfeldt, are to be warmly congratulated. Over the past few years, it is readily apparent that almost all of our authors are now providing high-quality, imaginative graphical abstracts to accompany their articles published in the journal, which assists our prospective readers greatly. The judicious use of color in these graphical abstracts is appreciated. Finally, the journal Editors would like to thank our many article referees for their timely critiques of manuscripts submitted, which is imperative for maintaining the scientific quality of the Journal of Natural Products.
n March 2018, a special issue of the Journal of Natural Products will honor Dr. Susan Band Horwitz, Distinguished Professor and Rose C. Falkenstein Professor of Cancer Research, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. Dr. Horwitz has performed numerous studies on the cellular mechanism of action of natural product-derived anticancer agents, and in particular she has investigated the mode of action of paclitaxel (Taxol) in stabilizing microtubules in very great detail. She has received many awards and honors during her career for her seminal contributions, including being elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Member of the National Academy of Medicine. She was President of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) from 2002 to 2003. Dr. Horwitz is also a Fellow of the American Society of Pharmacognosy, and she has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Natural Products since 2010. The Guest Editors for this special issue are Drs. David G. I. Kingston, Susan L. Mooberry, Amos B. Smith III, Steven M. Swanson, and Mansukh C. Wani. The first of two journal cover illustrations for 2018 (January−June) was provided by Dr. George R. (Bob) Pettit, of Arizona State University, and shows a new geographical source for the mollusk Dollabella auricularia (Papua New Guinea), the organism of origin of dolastatin 10. After total synthesis and structural modifications, the latter compound has been used in the generation of the anticancer antibody drug conjugate brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris). The structure shown in this new cover is of the dolastatin derivative quinstatin 8 attached to a linker suitable for conjugation to an antibody, as produced in Dr. Pettit’s laboratory. The cover illustration to be used in the second six months of 2018 will be supplied by Professor Normand Voyer, from Laval University, Quebec, Canada, and involves a motif focusing on some antibacterial metabolites of a lichen collected in Nunavik that is a food for the local reindeer population. Once again, over the last year the Editors of the Journal of Natural Products have continued to nominate articles from the journal for the “ACS Editors’ Choice” feature (http://pubs.acs. org/editorschoice/), which permits especially meritorious contributions to be published with immediate open access that can be readily obtained by our readership. Four papers from the Journal of Natural Products were chosen in 2017, with the following corresponding authors: Robert J Capon (J. Nat. Prod. 2017, 80, 609−615; doi 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.6b00899), George R. Pettit (J. Nat. Prod. 2017, 80, 692−698; doi 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.6b01006), Kimberly N. White and Phillip Crews (J. Nat. Prod. 2017, 80, 740−755; doi 10.1021/ acs.jnatprod.6b00970), and Hayato Ishikawa (J. Nat. Prod. 2017, 80, 2371−2378; doi 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b00464). The first three of these papers were included in the special issue of the Journal of Natural Products published in honor of Dr. Phil Crews in March 2017. © 2018 American Chemical Society and American Society of Pharmacognosy
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A. Douglas Kinghorn, Editor-in-Chief AUTHOR INFORMATION
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A. Douglas Kinghorn: 0000-0002-6647-8707 Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
Published: January 26, 2018 1
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b01078 J. Nat. Prod. 2018, 81, 1−1
