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Therapeutic Potential of Bee and Scorpion Venom Phospholipase A2 (PLA2): A Narrative Review [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022 Venomous arthropods such as scorpions and bees form one of the important groups with an essential role in medical entomology. Their venom possesses a mixture of diverse compounds, such as peptides, some of which have toxic effects, and enzymatic peptide ...
Parisa Soltan-Alinejad +3 more
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Antibacterial Activity and Toxicity of Analogs of Scorpion Venom IsCT Peptides [PDF]
Antibiotics, 2017 Seven analogs of the natural, α-helix peptides IsCT1 and IsCT2—found in the venom of scorpion Opithancatus Madagascariensis—have been synthesized and tested to compare their antibacterial and hemolytic activity against natural peptides. In general, results show that increasing hydrophobicity by substituting positions 5 and 9 of the sequences with ...
Bea, Roberto De la Salud +3 more
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Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research, 2022 Background: The venom peptides from the scorpion fauna of Iran have been poorly characterized so far. Objectives: In this study, we identified a cDNA encoding of an anionic cysteine-free antimicrobial peptide from the Iranian yellow scorpion odontobuthus
Amir Jalali +5 more
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A Deeper Examination of Thorellius atrox Scorpion Venom Components with Omic Technologies
Toxins, 2017 This communication reports a further examination of venom gland transcripts and venom composition of the Mexican scorpion Thorellius atrox using RNA-seq and tandem mass spectrometry.
Teresa Romero-Gutierrez +5 more
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Structure-Activity Relationship of Chlorotoxin-Like Peptides
Toxins, 2016 Animal venom (e.g., scorpion) is a rich source of various protein and peptide toxins with diverse physio-/pharmaco-logical activities, which generally exert their action via target-specific modulation of different ion channel functions.
Syed Abid Ali +6 more
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Toxins, 2016 Scorpion venom is deemed to contain many toxic peptides as an important source of natural compounds. Out of the two hundred proteins identified in Mesobuthus martensii (M. martensii), only a few peptide toxins have been found so far.
Ning Luan +8 more
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SjAPI, the first functionally characterized Ascaris-type protease inhibitor from animal venoms. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Serine protease inhibitors act as modulators of serine proteases, playing important roles in protecting animal toxin peptides from degradation. However, all known serine protease inhibitors discovered thus far from animal venom belong to the Kunitz-type ...
Zongyun Chen +7 more
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A simple protocol for venom peptide barcoding in scorpions
EuPA Open Proteomics, 2014 AbstractScorpion venoms contain many species-specific peptides which target ion channels in cell membranes. Without harming the scorpions, these peptides can easily be extracted and detected by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. So far, only few studies compared the venom of different species solely for taxonomic purposes.
Schaffrath, Stephan, Predel, Reinhard
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Molecular Characterization of a Three-disulfide Bridges Beta-like Neurotoxin from Androctonus crassicauda Scorpion Venom [PDF]
Archives of Razi Institute, 2019 Scorpion venom is the richest source of peptide toxins with high levels of specific interactions with different ion-channel membrane proteins. The present study involved the amplification and sequencing of a 310-bp cDNA fragment encoding a beta-like ...
A. Jolodar
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Scorpion venom heat-resistant peptide (SVHRP) enhances neurogenesis and neurite outgrowth of immature neurons in adult mice by up-regulating brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Scorpion venom heat-resistant peptide (SVHRP) is a component purified from Buthus martensii Karsch scorpion venom. Although scorpions and their venom have been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to treat chronic neurological disorders, the ...
Tao Wang +12 more
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