LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Proteomic analysis of Red Sea Conus taeniatus venom reveals potential biological applications

Fouda, Maged M. A; Abdel-Wahab, Mohammed; Mohammadien, Amal; Germoush, Mousa O; Sarhan, Moustafa.

J. venom. anim. toxins incl. trop. dis; 27 (), 2021

Diverse and unique bioactive neurotoxins known as conopeptides or conotoxins are produced by venomous marine cone snails. Currently, these small and stable molecules are of great importance as research tools and platforms for discovering new drugs and therapeutics. Therefore, the characterization of Conu...

Neurotoxinas, Caracol Conus, Conotoxinas, Proteoma, Venenos de Moluscos, Productos Biológicos

Fulltext

Anatomy and shell shape variability in a land snail Bostryx torallyi (Stylommatophora: Bulimulidae)

Miranda, María José.

Rev. biol. trop; 68 (1), 2020

Introduction: The gastropod Bostryx torallyi shows high variability in shell shape and coloration. Subspecies of this organism have been described based on shell characters but, since they were slightly different, they were synonymized afterwards. Until now, shell variability has been analyzed only descr...

Caracoles/anatomía & histología, Caracoles/clasificación, Caracol Conus/anatomía & histología, Argentina, Bolivia

Fulltext

Isolation and structural identification of a new T1-conotoxin with unique disulfide connectivities derived from Conus bandanus

Bao, Nguyen; Lecaer, Jean-Pière; Nghia, Ngo Dang; Vinh, Phan Thi Khanh.

J. venom. anim. toxins incl. trop. dis; 26 (), 2020

Conopeptides are neuropharmacological peptides derived from the venomous salivary glands of cone snails. Among 29 superfamilies based on conserved signal sequences, T-superfamily conotoxins, which belong to the smallest group, include four different frameworks that contain four cysteines denominated I, V...

Caracol Conus, Conotoxinas, Disulfuros, Péptidos, Glándulas Salivales

Fulltext