Structural and Functional Analyses of Cone Snail Toxins [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2019 Cone snails are marine gastropod mollusks with one of the most powerful venoms in nature. The toxins, named conotoxins, must act quickly on the cone snails´ prey due to the fact that snails are extremely slow, reducing their hunting capability ...
Harry Morales Duque +2 more
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Small Molecules in the Cone Snail Arsenal. [PDF]
Org Lett, 2015 Cone snails are renowned for producing peptide-based venom, containing conopeptides and conotoxins, to capture their prey. A novel small-molecule guanine derivative with unprecedented features, genuanine, was isolated from the venom of two cone snail ...
Neves JL +6 more
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Cone snail species off the Brazilian coast and their venoms: a review and update [PDF]
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2023 The genus Conus includes over 900 species of marine invertebrates known as cone snails, whose venoms are among the most powerful described so far.
Helena B. Fiorotti +3 more
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Revision of the deep-water cone snail fauna from New Caledonia (Gastropoda, Conoidea) [PDF]
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2023 The present work reviews the deep-water cone fauna of New Caledonia and its Economic Exclusive Zone. It is based on the material collected for more than 40 years by oceanographic expeditions in the deep waters surrounding New Caledonia, organized by the
Manuel J. Tenorio, Nicolas Puillandre
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Recruitment of Glycosyl Hydrolase Proteins in a Cone Snail Venomous Arsenal: Further Insights into Biomolecular Features of Conus Venoms [PDF]
Marine Drugs, 2012 Cone snail venoms are considered an untapped reservoir of extremely diverse peptides, named conopeptides, displaying a wide array of pharmacological activities.
Philippe Favreau +10 more
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The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of a cone snail, Conus betulinus (Neogastropoda: Conidae), from the South China sea [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2021 The complete mitochondrial genome of the tubular cone snail Conus betulinus is presented in this study. The C. betulinus mitochondrial genome was 16,240 bp with 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes ...
Yanling Liao +3 more
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Predatory and Defensive Strategies in Cone Snails
ToxinsCone snails are carnivorous marine animals that prey on fish (piscivorous), worms (vermivorous), or other mollusks (molluscivorous). They produce a complex venom mostly made of disulfide-rich conotoxins and conopeptides in a compartmentalized venom gland.
Zahrmina Ratibou +2 more
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A Combined Transcriptomics and Proteomics Approach Reveals the Differences in the Predatory and Defensive Venoms of the Molluscivorous Cone Snail Cylinder ammiralis (Caenogastropoda: Conidae) [PDF]
Toxins, 2021 Venoms are complex mixtures of proteins that have evolved repeatedly in the animal kingdom. Cone snail venoms represent one of the best studied venom systems.
Samuel Abalde +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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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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