The mitochondrial genome of the venomous cone snail Conus consors. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Cone snails are venomous predatory marine neogastropods that belong to the species-rich superfamily of the Conoidea. So far, the mitochondrial genomes of two cone snail species (Conus textile and Conus borgesi) have been described, and these feed on ...
Age Brauer +9 more
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Venomics-Accelerated Cone Snail Venom Peptide Discovery [PDF]
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2018 Cone snail venoms are considered a treasure trove of bioactive peptides. Despite over 800 species of cone snails being known, each producing over 1000 venom peptides, only about 150 unique venom peptides are structurally and functionally characterized ...
Himaya Siddhihalu Wickrama Hewage +1 more
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Stenotrophomonas-Like Bacteria Are Widespread Symbionts in Cone Snail Venom Ducts. [PDF]
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2017 Cone snails are biomedically important sources of peptide drugs, but it is not known whether snail-associated bacteria affect venom chemistry. To begin to answer this question, we performed 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of eight cone snail species ...
Margo G. Haygood +2 more
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Characterization of the First Conotoxin from Conus ateralbus, a Vermivorous Cone Snail from the Cabo Verde Archipelago [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2019 Conus ateralbus is a cone snail endemic to the west side of the island of Sal, in the Cabo Verde Archipelago off West Africa. We describe the isolation and characterization of the first bioactive peptide from the venom of this species.
Jorge L. B. Neves +10 more
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Fish-hunting cone snail venoms are a rich source of minimized ligands of the vertebrate insulin receptor [PDF]
eLife, 2019 The fish-hunting marine cone snail Conus geographus uses a specialized venom insulin to induce hypoglycemic shock in its prey. We recently showed that this venom insulin, Con-Ins G1, has unique characteristics relevant to the design of new insulin ...
Peter Ahorukomeye +13 more
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Total synthesis and structural characterization of a novel protein scaffold from the snail Biomphalaria glabrata. [PDF]
Protein SciAbstract Disulfide‐rich miniproteins constitute compact and highly stable scaffolds of growing interest for molecular and structural engineering. Schistosomins are ~80‐residue proteins conserved across gastropods that form a long‐standing orphan family whose structure and biological roles have remained unknown.
Melnyk O +13 more
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Mitochondrial genome sequencing of a vermivorous cone snail Conus quercinus supports the correlative analysis between phylogenetic relationships and dietary types of Conus species. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequence of a worm-hunting cone snail, Conus quercinus, was reported in this study. Its mitogenome, the longest one (16,460 bp) among reported Conus specie, is composed of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 ...
Bingmiao Gao +4 more
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Structures and interactions of insulin-like peptides from cone snail venom [PDF]
Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics, 2022 Harish Vashisth, Biswajit Gorai
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2015 Based on newly collected material from the Kavieng Lagoon Biodiversity Survey, we describe a new species of cone snail, Conus hughmorrisoni sp. nov., from the vicinity of Kavieng, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.
Felix Lorenz, Nicolas Puillandre
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Comparative analysis of venom genes in the chromosome-level genomes of two closely related cone snails [PDF]
BMC GenomicsBackground Venom cocktails of cone snails are characterized by their dynamic composition and the rapid evolution of toxin-encoding genes due to various selective pressures.
Ana Herráez-Pérez, Rafael Zardoya
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