Actinoporins: From the Structure and Function to the Generation of Biotechnological and Therapeutic Tools

Autor: Santos Ramírez-Carreto, Beatriz Miranda-Zaragoza, Claudia Rodríguez-Almazán

Publikováno v: Biomolecules, Vol 10, Iss 4, p 539 (2020)

Actinoporins (APs) are a family of pore-forming toxins (PFTs) from sea anemones. These biomolecules exhibit the ability to exist as soluble monomers within an aqueous medium or as constitutively open oligomers in biological membranes. Through their c

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Transcriptome analysis of scorpion species belonging to the Vaejovis genus.

Autor: Verónica Quintero-Hernández, Santos Ramírez-Carreto, María Teresa Romero-Gutiérrez, Laura L Valdez-Velázquez, Baltazar Becerril, Lourival D Possani, Ernesto Ortiz

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 10, Iss 2, p e0117188 (2015)

Scorpions belonging to the Buthidae family have traditionally drawn much of the biochemist's attention due to the strong toxicity of their venoms. Scorpions not toxic to mammals, however, also have complex venoms. They have been shown to be an import

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/d22b674190b648c581d0eb3cca7a7c2e

Identification of Hemolytic and Phospholipase Activity in Crude Extracts from Sea Anemones by Straightforward Bioassays

Autor: Claudia Rodríguez-Almazán, Giovanni Macías Martínez, Sandra I. Salazar-García, Santos Ramírez-Carreto

Publikováno v: Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE. (181)

Sea anemone venom composition includes polypeptide and non-proteins molecules. Cytolytic components have a high biotechnological and biomedical potential for designing new molecular tools. Sea anemone venom locates in glandular cells from ectoderm an

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35435894

Identification of a pore-forming protein from sea anemone Anthopleura dowii Verrill (1869) venom by mass spectrometry

Autor: Alexei F. Licea-Navarro, Gustavo Pedraza-Alva, Sandra I Salazar-García, Santos Ramírez-Carreto, Leonor Pérez-Martínez, Claudia Rodríguez-Almazán, Erick I. Pérez-García, Johanna Bernáldez-Sarabia, Enrique Rudiño-Piñera

Publikováno v: Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases v.25 2019
The Journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
instacron:UNESP
The Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins Including Tropical Diseases
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, Vol 25
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, Volume: 25, Article number: e147418, Published: 11 FEB 2019

Background: Pore-forming proteins (PFP) are a class of toxins abundant in the venom of sea anemones. Owing to their ability to recognize and permeabilize cell membranes, pore-forming proteins have medical potential in cancer therapy or as biosensors.

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http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1678-91992019000100301

Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis of the Tentacles and Mucus of Anthopleura dowii Verrill, 1869

Autor: Jerome Verleyen, Rosario Vera-Estrella, Claudia Rodríguez-Almazán, Alexei F. Licea-Navarro, Santos Ramírez-Carreto, Enrique Rudiño-Piñera, Tobias Portillo-Bobadilla, Estefanía Rodríguez, Johanna Bernáldez-Sarabia

Publikováno v: Marine Drugs, Vol 17, Iss 8, p 436 (2019)
Marine Drugs
Volume 17
Issue 8

Sea anemone venom contains a complex and diverse arsenal of peptides and proteins of pharmacological and biotechnological interest, however, only venom from a few species has been explored from a global perspective to date. In the present study, we i

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https://doi.org/10.3390/md17080436