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ReviewToxins2019

Spider Venom: Components, Modes of Action, and Novel Strategies in Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analyses.

Nicolas Langenegger, Wolfgang Nentwig, Lucia Kuhn-Nentwig

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Review in Toxins, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

66 citing papers in PubMed.

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  15. Prospects and challenges of recombinant spider venom enzymes: insights fromFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025
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6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors.

Nicolas LangeneggerInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland. nicolas.langenegger@iee.unibe.ch.
Wolfgang NentwigInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland. wolfgang.nentwig@iee.unibe.ch.
Lucia Kuhn-NentwigInstitute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland. lucia.kuhn@iee.unibe.ch.

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation 31003A_162564
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review gives an overview on the development of research on spider venoms with a focus on structure and function of venom components and techniques of analysis. Major venom component groups are small molecular mass compounds, antimicrobial (also called cytolytic, or cationic) peptides (only in some spider families), cysteine-rich (neurotoxic) peptides, and enzymes and proteins. Cysteine-rich peptides are reviewed with respect to various structural motifs, their targets (ion channels, membrane receptors), nomenclature, and molecular binding. We further describe the latest findings concerning the maturation of antimicrobial, and cysteine-rich peptides that are in most known cases expressed as propeptide-containing precursors. Today, venom research, increasingly employs transcriptomic and mass spectrometric techniques. Pros and cons of venom gland transcriptome analysis with Sanger, 454, and Illumina sequencing are discussed and an overview on so far published transcriptome studies is given. In this respect, we also discuss the only recently described cross contamination arising from multiplexing in Illumina sequencing and its possible impacts on venom studies. High throughput mass spectrometric analysis of venom proteomes (bottom-up, top-down) are reviewed.

Indexed as

Spider VenomsAnimalsGene Expression ProfilingHumansProteomicsSpider VenomsAraneaebioinformaticsmass spectrometryneurotoxinsproteomicsspiderstranscriptomicsvenomics

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PMID31652611
PMCPMC6832493

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