Snake venoms in drug discovery: Valuable therapeutic tools for life saving

T Mohamed Abd El-Aziz, AG Soares, JD Stockand - Toxins, 2019 - mdpi.com
Animal venoms are used as defense mechanisms or to immobilize and digest prey. In fact,
venoms are complex mixtures of enzymatic and non-enzymatic components with specific …

Haemostatically active proteins in snake venoms

T Sajevic, A Leonardi, I Križaj - Toxicon, 2011 - Elsevier
Snake venom proteins that affect the haemostatic system can cause (a) lowering of blood
coagulability,(b) damage to blood vessels, resulting in bleeding,(c) secondary effects of …

Polymorphic toxin systems: comprehensive characterization of trafficking modes, processing, mechanisms of action, immunity and ecology using comparative …

D Zhang, RF de Souza, V Anantharaman, LM Iyer… - Biology direct, 2012 - Springer
Background Proteinaceous toxins are observed across all levels of inter-organismal and
intra-genomic conflicts. These include recently discovered prokaryotic polymorphic toxin …

[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 …

Comprehensive analysis of the HEPN superfamily: identification of novel roles in intra-genomic conflicts, defense, pathogenesis and RNA processing

V Anantharaman, KS Makarova, AM Burroughs… - Biology direct, 2013 - Springer
Background The major role of enzymatic toxins that target nucleic acids in biological
conflicts at all levels has become increasingly apparent thanks in large part to the advances …

Phylovenomics of Daboia russelii across the Indian subcontinent. Bioactivities and comparative in vivo neutralization and in vitro third-generation antivenomics of …

D Pla, L Sanz, S Quesada-Bernat, M Villalta, J Baal… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Russell's viper (Daboia russelii) is, together with Naja naja, Bungarus caeruleus and Echis
carinatus, a member of the medically important 'Big Four'species responsible for causing a …

Evolution of the deaminase fold and multiple origins of eukaryotic editing and mutagenic nucleic acid deaminases from bacterial toxin systems

LM Iyer, D Zhang, IB Rogozin… - Nucleic acids research, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The deaminase-like fold includes, in addition to nucleic acid/nucleotide deaminases, several
catalytic domains such as the JAB domain, and others involved in nucleotide and ADP …

A novel immunity system for bacterial nucleic acid degrading toxins and its recruitment in various eukaryotic and DNA viral systems

D Zhang, LM Iyer, L Aravind - Nucleic acids research, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The use of nucleases as toxins for defense, offense or addiction of selfish elements is widely
encountered across all life forms. Using sensitive sequence profile analysis methods, we …

A brief review of the scientific history of several lesser-known snake venom proteins: L-amino acid oxidases, hyaluronidases and phosphodiesterases

JW Fox - Toxicon, 2013 - Elsevier
When considering the proteins and toxins in snake venom one's thoughts generally migrate
to the proteinases, neurotoxins and phospholipases since these families of proteins are …

Venom proteomics and antivenom neutralization for the Chinese eastern Russell's viper, Daboia siamensis from Guangxi and Taiwan

KY Tan, NH Tan, CH Tan - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The eastern Russell's viper (Daboia siamensis) causes primarily hemotoxic envenomation.
Applying shotgun proteomic approach, the present study unveiled the protein complexity …