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Structural venomics reveals evolution of a complex venom by duplication and diversification of an ancient peptide-encoding gene

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020
Significance The venom of the Australian funnel-web spider is one of the most complex chemical arsenals in the natural world, comprising thousands of peptide toxins.
S. Pineda   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Review of the Proteomic Profiling of African Viperidae and Elapidae Snake Venoms and Their Antivenom Neutralisation

open access: yesToxins, 2022
Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that results from the injection of snake venom of a venomous snake into animals and humans.
Benedict C. Offor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Old World Vipers—A Review about Snake Venom Proteomics of Viperinae and Their Variations

open access: yesToxins, 2021
Fine-tuned by millions of years of evolution, snake venoms have frightened but also fascinated humanity and nowadays they constitute potential resources for drug development, therapeutics and antivenoms.
Maik Damm   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Venomous Snakebites

open access: yesMedicina, 2011
More than 5 million people are bitten by venomous snakes annually and more than 100 000 of them die. In Europe, one person dies due to envenomation every 3 years. There is only one venomous snake species in Lithuania – the common adder (Vipera berus) – which belongs to the Viperidae family; however, there are some exotic poisonous snakes in the zoos ...
Dalia, Adukauskienė   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Transcriptomic Insights into the Diversity and Evolution of Myxozoa (Cnidaria, Endocnidozoa) Toxin-like Proteins

open access: yesMarine Drugs, 2022
Myxozoa is a speciose group of endoparasitic cnidarians that can cause severe ecological and economic effects. Their cnidarian affinity is affirmed by genetic relatedness and the presence of nematocysts, historically called “polar capsules”.
Bin Xiao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electric Blue: Molecular Evolution of Three-Finger Toxins in the Long-Glanded Coral Snake Species Calliophis bivirgatus

open access: yesToxins, 2021
The genus Calliophis is the most basal branch of the family Elapidae and several species in it have developed highly elongated venom glands. Recent research has shown that C.
Daniel Dashevsky   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Different Research Approaches in Unraveling the Venom Proteome of Naja ashei

open access: yesBiomolecules, 2020
The dynamic development of venomics in recent years has resulted in a significant increase in publicly available proteomic data. The information contained therein is often used for comparisons between different datasets and to draw biological conclusions
Konrad Kamil Hus   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Identification of Novel Toxin Genes from the Stinging Nettle Caterpillar Parasa lepida (Cramer, 1799): Insights into the Evolution of Lepidoptera Toxins

open access: yesInsects, 2021
Many animal species can produce venom for defense, predation, and competition. The venom usually contains diverse peptide and protein toxins, including neurotoxins, proteolytic enzymes, protease inhibitors, and allergens.
Natrada Mitpuangchon   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated “omics” profiling indicates that miRNAs are modulators of the ontogenetic venom composition shift in the Central American rattlesnake, [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background Understanding the processes that drive the evolution of snake venom is a topic of great research interest in molecular and evolutionary toxinology. Recent studies suggest that ontogenetic changes in venom composition are genetically controlled
Durbán, Jordi   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Bioinformatics-Aided Venomics

open access: yesToxins, 2015
Venomics is a modern approach that combines transcriptomics and proteomics to explore the toxin content of venoms. This review will give an overview of computational approaches that have been created to classify and consolidate venomics data, as well as ...
Quentin Kaas, David J. Craik
doaj   +1 more source

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