[HTML][HTML] The chemistry of snake venom and its medicinal potential

AL Oliveira, MF Viegas, SL da Silva… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The fascination and fear of snakes dates back to time immemorial, with the first scientific
treatise on snakebite envenoming, the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus, dating from ancient Egypt …

Causes and consequences of snake venom variation

NR Casewell, TNW Jackson, AH Laustsen… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Snake venoms are mixtures of toxins that vary extensively between and within snake
species. This variability has serious consequences for the management of the world's 1.8 …

Multifunctional toxins in snake venoms and therapeutic implications: from pain to hemorrhage and necrosis

CR Ferraz, A Arrahman, C **e, NR Casewell… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Animal venoms have evolved over millions of years for prey capture and defense from
predators and rivals. Snake venoms, in particular, have evolved a wide diversity of peptides …

A therapeutic combination of two small molecule toxin inhibitors provides broad preclinical efficacy against viper snakebite

LO Albulescu, C **e, S Ainsworth, J Alsolaiss… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Snakebite is a medical emergency causing high mortality and morbidity in rural tropical
communities that typically experience delayed access to unaffordable therapeutics. Viperid …

[HTML][HTML] Beyond the 'big four': Venom profiling of the medically important yet neglected Indian snakes reveals disturbing antivenom deficiencies

RRS Laxme, S Khochare, HF de Souza… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Snakebite in India causes the highest annual rates of death (46,000) and
disability (140,000) than any other country. Antivenom is the mainstay treatment of …

Anti-ferroptotic mechanism of IL4i1-mediated amino acid metabolism

L Zeitler, A Fiore, C Meyer, M Russier, G Zanella… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Interleukin-4-induced-1 (IL4i1) is an amino acid oxidase secreted from immune cells. Recent
observations have suggested that IL4i1 is pro-tumorigenic via unknown mechanisms. As …

The Indian cobra reference genome and transcriptome enables comprehensive identification of venom toxins

K Suryamohan, SP Krishnankutty, J Guillory, M Jevit… - Nature Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Snakebite envenoming is a serious and neglected tropical disease that kills~ 100,000
people annually. High-quality, genome-enabled comprehensive characterization of toxin …

Convergent evolution of pain-inducing defensive venom components in spitting cobras

TD Kazandjian, D Petras, SD Robinson, J van Thiel… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Convergent evolution provides insights into the selective drivers underlying evolutionary
change. Snake venoms, with a direct genetic basis and clearly defined functional …

A current perspective on snake venom composition and constituent protein families

T Tasoulis, GK Isbister - Archives of toxicology, 2023 - Springer
Snake venoms are heterogeneous mixtures of proteins and peptides used for prey
subjugation. With modern proteomics there has been a rapid expansion in our knowledge of …

Venomics and Peptidomics of Palearctic Vipers: A Clade-Wide Analysis of Seven Taxa of the Genera Vipera, Montivipera, Macrovipera, and Daboia across …

M Damm, M Karış, D Petras… - Journal of proteome …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Snake venom variations are a crucial factor to understand the consequences of snakebite
envenoming worldwide, and therefore it is important to know about toxin composition …