Venoms comprise mixtures of peptides and proteins tailored by Natural Selection to act on
vital systems of the prey or victim. Here we review our proteomic protocols for uncoiling the …

Snake bites can be deadly, but the venoms also contain components of medical and
biotechnological value. The proteomic characterization of snake venom proteomes, snake …

Background Snake venoms have significant impacts on human populations through the
morbidity and mortality associated with snakebites and as sources of drugs, drug leads, and …

The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers" one-stop shop**" to all biologists,
biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, and informed …

Venom is a key innovation underlying the evolution of advanced snakes (Caenophidia).
Despite this, very little is known about venom system structural diversification, toxin …

Throughout medical history, plant products have been shown to be valuable sources of
novel anti-cancer drugs. Examples are the Vinca alkaloids, the taxanes, and the …

The discovery, about forty years ago, of a-bungarotoxin, a three-finger a-neurotoxin from
Bungarus multicinctus venom, enabled the isolation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor …

We report the proteomic characterization of the venom of the medically important North
American western diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus atrox, using two complementary …

Despite causing considerable human mortality and morbidity, animal toxins represent a
valuable source of pharmacologically active macromolecules, a unique system for studying …

Disintegrins, a family of polypeptides released in the venoms of viperid snakes (vipers and
rattlesnakes) by the proteolytic processing of multidomain metalloproteinases, selectively …