Spider-venom peptides: structure, pharmacology, and potential for control of insect pests

GF King, MC Hardy - Annual review of entomology, 2013‏ - annualreviews.org
Spider venoms are an incredibly rich source of disulfide-rich insecticidal peptides that have
been tuned over millions of years to target a wide range of receptors and ion channels in the …

[HTML][HTML] Spider-venom peptides as therapeutics

NJ Saez, S Senff, JE Jensen, SY Er, V Herzig, LD Rash… - Toxins, 2010‏ - mdpi.com
Spiders are the most successful venomous animals and the most abundant terrestrial
predators. Their remarkable success is due in large part to their ingenious exploitation of silk …

In Silico Approach for Predicting Toxicity of Peptides and Proteins

S Gupta, P Kapoor, K Chaudhary, A Gautam, R Kumar… - PloS one, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Over the past few decades, scientific research has been focused on develo**
peptide/protein-based therapies to treat various diseases. With the several advantages over …

ATSE: a peptide toxicity predictor by exploiting structural and evolutionary information based on graph neural network and attention mechanism

L Wei, X Ye, Y Xue, T Sakurai… - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Peptides have recently emerged as promising therapeutic agents against
various diseases. For both research and safety regulation purposes, it is of high importance …

[HTML][HTML] Spider-venom peptides as bioinsecticides

MJ Windley, V Herzig, SA Dziemborowicz, MC Hardy… - Toxins, 2012‏ - mdpi.com
Over 10,000 arthropod species are currently considered to be pest organisms. They are
estimated to contribute to the destruction of~ 14% of the world's annual crop production and …

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 …

The World Spider Trait database: a centralized global open repository for curated data on spider traits

S Pekár, JO Wolff, Ľ Černecká, K Birkhofer… - Database, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Spiders are a highly diversified group of arthropods and play an important role in terrestrial
ecosystems as ubiquitous predators, which makes them a suitable group to test a variety of …

Venomics: a new paradigm for natural products-based drug discovery

I Vetter, JL Davis, LD Rash, R Anangi, M Mobli… - Amino acids, 2011‏ - Springer
The remarkable potency and pharmacological diversity of animal venoms has made them
an increasingly valuable source of lead molecules for drug and insecticide discovery …

The venom optimization hypothesis revisited

D Morgenstern, GF King - Toxicon, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Animal venoms are complex chemical mixtures that typically contain hundreds of proteins
and non-proteinaceous compounds, resulting in a potent weapon for prey immobilization …

Strategies for heterologous expression, synthesis, and purification of animal venom toxins

E Rivera-de-Torre, C Rimbault, TP Jenkins… - … in bioengineering and …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Animal venoms are complex mixtures containing peptides and proteins known as toxins,
which are responsible for the deleterious effect of envenomations. Across the animal …