[HTML][HTML] Peptide therapeutics from venom: Current status and potential

MW Pennington, A Czerwinski, RS Norton - Bioorganic & medicinal …, 2018 - Elsevier
Peptides are recognized as being highly selective, potent and relatively safe as potential
therapeutics. Peptides isolated from the venom of different animals satisfy most of these …

Spider-venom peptides that target voltage-gated sodium channels: pharmacological tools and potential therapeutic leads

JK Klint, S Senff, DB Rupasinghe, SY Er, V Herzig… - Toxicon, 2012 - Elsevier
Voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels play a central role in the propagation of action
potentials in excitable cells in both humans and insects. Many venomous animals have …

Deconstructing voltage sensor function and pharmacology in sodium channels

F Bosmans, MF Martin-Eauclaire, KJ Swartz - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Voltage-activated sodium (Nav) channels are crucial for the generation and propagation of
nerve impulses, and as such are widely targeted by toxins and drugs. The four voltage …

The roles of sodium channels in nociception: implications for mechanisms of neuropathic pain

M Liu, JN Wood - Pain medicine, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Animal models have provided useful insights into the development and treatment of
neuropathic pain. New genetic data from both human studies and transgenic mouse models …

Production of Recombinant Disulfide-Rich Venom Peptides for Structural and Functional Analysis via Expression in the Periplasm of E. coli

JK Klint, S Senff, NJ Saez, R Seshadri, HY Lau… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Disulfide-rich peptides are the dominant component of most animal venoms. These peptides
have received much attention as leads for the development of novel therapeutic agents and …

Discovery of a selective NaV1.7 inhibitor from centipede venom with analgesic efficacy exceeding morphine in rodent pain models

S Yang, Y ** the domain ii voltage sensor in the closed configuration
Y **ao, JP Bingham, W Zhu, E Moczydlowski… - Journal of Biological …, 2008 - jbc.org
Peptide toxins with high affinity, divergent pharmacological functions, and isoform-specific
selectivity are powerful tools for investigating the structure-function relationships of voltage …

Engineering Potent and Selective Analogues of GpTx-1, a Tarantula Venom Peptide Antagonist of the NaV1.7 Sodium Channel

JK Murray, J Ligutti, D Liu, A Zou, L Poppe… - Journal of medicinal …, 2015 - ACS Publications
NaV1. 7 is a voltage-gated sodium ion channel implicated by human genetic evidence as a
therapeutic target for the treatment of pain. Screening fractionated venom from the tarantula …