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Spider Venoms: Biochemical Aspects [PDF]
American Zoologist, 1969 SYNOPSIS. The venoms of spiders are quite complex and contain an array of biologically active components. The majority of studies on the biochemical aspects of these venoms have utilized four species: Phoneutria fera, Lycosa erythrognatha, Atrax robustus , and Latrodectus mactans .
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Revealing the Venomous Secrets of the Spider’s Web
Journal of Proteome Research, 2020 Orb-weaving spiders use a highly strong, sticky and elastic web to catch their prey. These web properties alone would be enough for the entrapment of prey; however, these spiders may be hiding venomous secrets in the web, which current research is revealing. Here, we provide strong proteotranscriptomic evidence for the presence of toxin/neurotoxin-like
Franciele Grego Esteves +11 more
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A Novel Insecticidal Spider Peptide that Affects the Mammalian Voltage-Gated Ion Channel hKv1.5
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Spider venoms include various peptide toxins that modify the ion currents, mainly of excitable insect cells. Consequently, scientific research on spider venoms has revealed a broad range of peptide toxins with different pharmacological properties, even ...
Diana Alvarado +13 more
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Isolation, N-glycosylations and Function of a Hyaluronidase-Like Enzyme from the Venom of the Spider Cupiennius salei. [PDF]
, 2015 STRUCTURE OF CUPIENNIUS SALEI VENOM HYALURONIDASE Hyaluronidases are important venom components acting as spreading factor of toxic compounds. In several studies this spreading effect was tested on vertebrate tissue.
Christian Trachsel +35 more
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Recent Advances in Research on Widow Spider Venoms and Toxins
Toxins, 2015 Widow spiders have received much attention due to the frequently reported human and animal injures caused by them. Elucidation of the molecular composition and action mechanism of the venoms and toxins has vast implications in the treatment of ...
Shuai Yan, Xianchun Wang
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, 2018 Spider venom neurotoxins and cytolytic peptides are expressed as elongated precursor peptides, which are post-translationally processed by proteases to yield the active mature peptides.
Wolfgang Nentwig +11 more
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Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2018 Background Loxoscelism is a severe human envenomation caused by Loxosceles spider venom. To the best of our knowledge, no study has evaluated the presence of antibodies against Loxosceles venom in loxoscelism patients without treatment with antivenom ...
Tomás Arán-Sekul +8 more
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, 2021 Nowadays, spider venom research focuses on the neurotoxic activity of small peptides. In this study, we investigated high-molecular-mass compounds that have either enzymatic activity or housekeeping functions present in either the venom gland or venom ...
Sebastian Estrada-Gómez, Leidy Johana Vargas-Muñoz +2 more
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BMC Genomics, 2017 Background Spiders are predaceous arthropods that are capable of subduing and consuming relatively large prey items compared to their own body size. For this purpose, spiders have evolved potent venoms to immobilise prey and digestive fluids that break ...
André Walter +6 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Prey-specialised spiders are adapted to capture specific prey items, including dangerous prey. The venoms of specialists are often prey-specific and less complex than those of generalists, but their venom composition has not been studied in detail. Here,
Ondřej Michálek +5 more
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