NPR Cover Gallery 2006
Cover Gallery
The cover shows a range of foodstuffs which contain biologically active sulfur-containing natural products.
DOI: 10.1039/b609523m
Plants: a state-of-the-art combination of "chemical factory" and "microbial fermenter". Image provided by R. X. Tan.
DOI: 10.1039/b609472b
Unidentified ascidian - Great Barrier Reef, December 2004. Photographer: Anke Kleuter, Australian Institute of Marine Science.
DOI: 10.1039/b609980g
The cover image shows the protein structure of the streptokinase, which is produced by beta-haemolytic streptococcus,
inhibiting the fibrinolytic enzyme plasmin. It is used as an effective drug in myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism.
DOI: 10.1039/B513504B
The cover shows marine benthic organisms from coral reefs in the Caribbean, many of which use natural products for defence. Clockwise from top left: the gorgonian
Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae; the green alga Avrainvilleasp.; the stony coral Montastraeasp. overgrown by the red sponge Clionasp.; and the brown alga Stypopodium zonale.
DOI: 10.1039/B404735B
The cover photograph, taken by Peter Northcote during a recent dive collection at the Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand, is of the nudibranch Tambja verconis grazing on the bryozoan Bugula dentata
DOI: 10.1039/B502792F
Cover images from NPR in 2005
