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ReviewToxins2018

Snake Venom Peptides: Tools of Biodiscovery.

Aisha Munawar, Syed Abid Ali, Ahmed Akrem, Christian Betzel

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Review in Toxins, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
55citing papers in PubMed
7.6field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 142 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Peptide Fraction fromAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  17. The Venom ofVeterinary sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Aisha MunawarDepartment of Chemistry, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore 54890, Pakistan. aisha.munawar@uet.edu.pk.
Syed Abid AliH.E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry, (ICCBS), University of Karachi, Karachi 75270, Pakistan. abid.ali@iccs.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0226-8257
Ahmed AkremBotany Division, Institute of Pure and Applied Biology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60800, Pakistan. ahmedakrem@hotmail.com.
Christian BetzelDepartment of Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Hamburg, 22607 Hamburg, Germany. christian.betzel@uni-hamburg.de.
Bahauddin Zakariya University · PKUniversität Hamburg · DEUniversity of Engineering and Technology Lahore · PKUniversity of Karachi · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nature endowed snakes with a lethal secretion known as venom, which has been fine-tuned over millions of years of evolution. Snakes utilize venom to subdue their prey and to survive in their natural habitat. Venom is known to be a very poisonous mixture, consisting of a variety of molecules, such as carbohydrates, nucleosides, amino acids, lipids, proteins and peptides. Proteins and peptides are the major constituents of the dry weight of snake venoms and are of main interest for scientific investigations as well as for various pharmacological applications. Snake venoms contain enzymatic and non-enzymatic proteins and peptides, which are grouped into different families based on their structure and function. Members of a single family display significant similarities in their primary, secondary and tertiary structures, but in many cases have distinct pharmacological functions and different bioactivities. The functional specificity of peptides belonging to the same family can be attributed to subtle variations in their amino acid sequences. Currently, complementary tools and techniques are utilized to isolate and characterize the peptides, and study their potential applications as molecular probes, and possible templates for drug discovery and design investigations.

Indexed as

PeptidesReptilian ProteinsSnake VenomsAnimalsDrug DiscoveryHumansPeptidesReptilian ProteinsSnake Venomsbradykinin potentiating peptidescrotaminekunitz-type inhibitorpolypeptide structure and functiontherapeutic peptidesthree-finger toxinsX-ray crystallography

Identifiers

PMID30441876
PMCPMC6266942
OpenAlexW2900640955

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