Venom-gland transcriptomics and venom proteomics of the Tibellus oblongus spider
Scientific Data, 2023 The Tibellus oblongus spider is an active hunter that does not spin webs and remains highly underinvestigated in terms of the venom composition. Here, we describe venom glands transcriptome and venom proteome analysis for unveiling the polypeptide ...
Yuliya Korolkova +7 more
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Can we resolve the taxonomic bias in spider venom research?
Toxicon: X, 2019 The rate of discovery of new spider species greatly exceeds the rate of spider venom characterisation, leading to an increasing number of species with unstudied venoms.
Volker Herzig +2 more
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Brown Spider (Loxosceles genus) Venom Toxins: Tools for Biological Purposes
Toxins, 2011 Venomous animals use their venoms as tools for defense or predation. These venoms are complex mixtures, mainly enriched of proteic toxins or peptides with several, and different, biological activities.
Olga Meiri Chaim +2 more
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Transcriptomic Analysis of the Spider Venom Gland Reveals Venom Diversity and Species Consanguinity
Toxins, 2019 Selenocosmia jiafu (S. jiafu) has been recently identified as a new species of spider in China. It lives in the same habitat as various other venomous spiders, including Chilobrachys jingzhao (C. jingzhao), Selenocosmia huwena (S. huwena), and Macrothele
Xi Zhou, Zhonghua Liu, Xiao Zhen
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Spider Venom: Components, Modes of Action, and Novel Strategies in Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analyses [PDF]
Toxins, 2019 This review gives an overview on the development of research on spider venoms with a focus on structure and function of venom components and techniques of analysis.
Nicolas Langenegger +2 more
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Prospects and challenges of recombinant spider venom enzymes: insights from Loxosceles and Phoneutria venom protease expressions [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and BiotechnologySpiders use chemically complex venoms to overpower prey. Such venoms are primarily composed of neurotoxic disulfide-rich peptides, linear peptides, and enzymes.
Josephine Dresler +11 more
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Toxins, 2020 Envenomation by Loxosceles spiders (Sicariidae family) has been thoroughly documented. However, little is known about the potential toxicity of members from the Sicarius genus.
Tomás Arán-Sekul +7 more
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A roadmap to the enzymes from spider venom: biochemical ecology, molecular diversity, and value for the bioeconomy [PDF]
Frontiers in Arachnid ScienceSpiders are ancient and highly successful predators, which use venom for both predation and defense. Their venoms are complex mixtures of potent biological molecules, emerging as a prolific source of biomolecular innovation in agriculture, biomedicine ...
Josephine Dresler +14 more
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Spider Neurotoxins, Short Linear Cationic Peptides and Venom Protein Classification Improved by an Automated Competition between Exhaustive Profile HMM Classifiers [PDF]
Toxins, 2017 Spider venoms are rich cocktails of bioactive peptides, proteins, and enzymes that are being intensively investigated over the years. In order to provide a better comprehension of that richness, we propose a three-level family classification system for ...
Dominique Koua, Lucia Kuhn-Nentwig
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Complex precursor structures of cytolytic cupiennins identified in spider venom gland transcriptomes [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Analysis of spider venom gland transcriptomes focuses on the identification of possible neurotoxins, proteins and enzymes. Here, the first comprehensive transcriptome analysis of cupiennins, small linear cationic peptides, also known as cytolytic or ...
Lucia Kuhn-Nentwig
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