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rBmαTX14 Increases the Life Span and Promotes the Locomotion of Caenorhabditis Elegans. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
The scorpion has been extensively used in various pharmacological profiles or as food supplies. The exploration of scorpion venom has been reported due to the presence of recombinant peptides. rBmαTX14 is an α-neurotoxin extracted from the venom gland of
Lan Chen, Ju Zhang, Jie Xu, Lu Wan, Kaixuan Teng, Jin Xiang, Rui Zhang, Zebo Huang, Yongmei Liu, Wenhua Li, Xin Liu   +10 more
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Molecular Characterization of a cDNA Encoding of an Anionic Cysteine-Free Antimicrobial Peptide From the Iranian Scorpion Odontobuthus Doriae Venom Glands

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, Masoud Mahdavinia, Hamid Galehdari, Masoumeh Baradaran, Davood Valdi-Biranvand, Maryam Naderi Soorki   +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, Esteban Peguero-Sanchez, Miguel A. Cevallos, Cesar V. F. Batista, Ernesto Ortiz, Lourival D. Possani   +5 more
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A Cell‐Penetrating Scorpion Venom Peptide Disrupts the HSP90β‐PPARα Interaction to Ameliorate Metabolic Dysfunction‐Associated Steatotic Liver Disease

iMetaMed, Volume 1, Issue 2, December 2025.
In MASLD, increased HSP90β interacts with PPARα, thereby inhibiting PPARα activation via the inhibition of its nuclear translocation. BmK Tx‐2, a cell‐penetrating peptide from Buthus martensii Karsch scorpion venom, enters hepatocytes via macropinocytosis and escapes endosomes to bind HSP90β.
Erjin Xu, Wuguang Lu, Yonggen Chen, Ming Sang, Jiao Chen, Xueting Cai, Wenhao Xu, Yuxin Zhang, Zhiheng Wang, Feng Zhang, Peng Cao   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intervertebral Disc Proteoglycans: Multifunctional Tissue Stabilizing and Instructional Cell Regulatory Proteins That Control Tissue Homeostasis

JOR SPINE, Volume 8, Issue 4, December 2025.
Matrix and cell‐associated proteoglycans are important tissue‐stabilizing, weight‐bearing, and tension‐resisting proteins in the intervertebral disc. Their glycosaminoglycan components have growth factor binding and cell‐instructive properties that allow cells to regulate tissue composition and function.
James Melrose
wiley   +1 more source

Scorpion venom as antimicrobial peptides (AMPs): A review article [PDF]

, 2016
The high level of reported multidrug resistant pathogens with the failure of most conventional antibiotic to kill many of them arise the global concern in the last decade to find alternatives urgently. Many researches are conducted on scorpion venom area
Tarazi, Shadi
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Scorpion Venom-Based Peptides as Potential Therapeutics Against Bacterial Infections

, 2023
Many human diseases worldwide are due to bacterial infection, and the current standard of care is antibiotic treatment. One of the biggest and most-pressing problems of the modern medicine is the rapid development of microbial antibiotic resistance ...
Lewit, Noam, Halim, Mohammad, Griffin, Melanie   +2 more
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Structural similarities reveal an expansive conotoxin family with a two‐finger toxin fold

Protein Science, Volume 34, Issue 11, November 2025.
Abstract Venomous animals have evolved a diverse repertoire of toxins with considerable pharmaceutical potential. The rapid evolution of peptide toxins, such as the conotoxins produced by venomous marine cone snails, often complicates efforts to infer their evolutionary relationships based solely on sequence information.
Muhammad Saad Khilji, Celeste M. Hackney, Thomas L. Koch, Arik J. Hone, Aymeric Rogalski, Maren Watkins, Jortan Tun, J. Michael McIntosh, Baldomero Olivera, Helena Safavi‐Hemami, Kaare Teilum, Lars Ellgaard   +11 more
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Discovery of a Novel Insecticidal Peptide with a Cystine-Stabilized α-Helix/α-Helix Motif from the Venom of Scorpion Liocheles australasiae

Molecules
Scorpion venom contains various bioactive peptides, many of which exhibit insecticidal activity. The majority of these peptides have a cystine-stabilized α-helix/β-sheet (CSαβ) motif. In addition to these peptides, scorpion venom also contains those with
Masahiro Miyashita, Naoya Mitani, Fuki Iwamoto, Mitsuki Hirota, Yoshiaki Nakagawa   +4 more
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Unveiling the Evolutionary History of European Vipers and Their Venoms From a Multi‐Omic Approach

Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 21, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Snake genomes attract significant attention from multiple disciplines, including medicine, drug bioprospection, and evolutionary biology. However, genomic research within the Viperidae family has mostly focused on the subfamily Crotalinae, while the true vipers (Viperinae) have largely been overlooked.
Adrián Talavera, Marc Palmada‐Flores, Fernando Martínez‐Freiría, Gabriel Mochales‐Riaño, Bernat Burriel‐Carranza, Maria Estarellas, Daniel Fernández‐Guiberteau, Álvaro Camina, Sylvain Ursenbacher, Judit Vörös, Bálint Halpern, Davinia Pla, Juan José Calvete, Alexander S. Mikheyev, Tomàs Marquès‐Bonet, Salvador Carranza   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source