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Venom variation during prey capture by the cone snail, Conus textile. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Observations of the mollusc-hunting cone snail Conus textile during feeding reveal that prey are often stung multiple times in succession. While studies on the venom peptides injected by fish-hunting cone snails have become common, these approaches have ...
Cecilia A Prator +2 more
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Cone snail species off the Brazilian coast and their venoms: a review and update
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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Nature Communications, 2023 Marine cone snails have attracted researchers from all disciplines but early life stages have received limited attention due to difficulties accessing or rearing juvenile specimens.
Aymeric Rogalski +2 more
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From venom peptides to a potential diabetes treatment
eLife, 2019 Cone snails have evolved a variety of insulin-like molecules that may help with the development of better treatments for diabetes.
Jiří Jiráček, Lenka Žáková
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A toxin-based approach to neuropeptide and peptide hormone discovery
Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2023 Peptide hormones and neuropeptides form a diverse class of bioactive secreted molecules that control essential processes in animals. Despite breakthroughs in peptide discovery, many signaling peptides remain undiscovered.
Thomas Lund Koch +10 more
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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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Scientific Reports, 2018 Cone snail venoms have separately evolved for predation and defense. Despite remarkable inter- and intra-species variability, defined sets of synergistic venom peptides (cabals) are considered essential for prey capture by cone snails.
S. W. A. Himaya +2 more
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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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Chemical Synthesis and NMR Solution Structure of Conotoxin GXIA from Conus geographus
Marine Drugs, 2021 Conotoxins are disulfide-rich peptides found in the venom of cone snails. Due to their exquisite potency and high selectivity for a wide range of voltage and ligand gated ion channels they are attractive drug leads in neuropharmacology.
David A. Armstrong +5 more
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Comparative Venomics of the Cryptic Cone Snail Species Virroconus ebraeus and Virroconus judaeus
Marine Drugs, 2022 The venom duct transcriptomes and proteomes of the cryptic cone snail species Virroconus ebraeus and Virroconus judaeus were obtained and compared.
José Ramón Pardos-Blas +3 more
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