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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2020

Comprehensive engineering of the tarantula venom peptide huwentoxin-IV to inhibit the human voltage-gated sodium channel hNa

Robert A Neff, Mack Flinspach, Alan Gibbs, Amy Y Shih, Natali A Minassian, Yi Liu, Ross Fellows, Ondrej Libiger, Stephanie Young, Michael W Pennington and 2 more

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The venom ofFrontiers in pharmacology · 2025
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  9. Synthetic Analogues of Huwentoxin-IV Spider Peptide With Altered Human NaFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021
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  11. Overexpressed NaFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021
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  12. Pain-related toxins in scorpion and spider venoms: a face to face with ion channels.The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2021
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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

12 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Robert A NeffNeuroscience Discovery, Janssen Research and Development, LLC, San Diego, California 92121 rneff@its.jnj.com.
Mack FlinspachBiologics Research, Janssen Research and Development, LLC, San Diego, California 92121.
Alan GibbsStructural Biology, Janssen Research and Development, LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania 19477.
Amy Y ShihDiscovery Chemistry-Computational Chemistry, Janssen Research and Development, LLC, San Diego, California 92121.
Natali A MinassianNeuroscience Discovery, Janssen Research and Development, LLC, San Diego, California 92121.
Yi LiuNeuroscience Discovery, Janssen Research and Development, LLC, San Diego, California 92121.
Ross FellowsBiologics Research, Janssen Research and Development, LLC, San Diego, California 92121.
Ondrej LibigerTranslational Medicine and Early Development Statistics, Janssen Research and Development, LLC, San Diego, California 92121.
Stephanie YoungTranslational Medicine and Early Development Statistics, Janssen Research and Development, LLC, San Diego, California 92121.
Michael W PenningtonPeptides International, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky 40299.ORCID 0000-0001-5446-3447
Michael J HunterBiologics Research, Janssen Research and Development, LLC, San Diego, California 92121.
Alan D WickendenMolecular and Cellular Pharmacology, Janssen Research and Development, LLC, San Diego, California 92121.
Janssen (United States) · USBiolog (United States) · USJanssen (Belgium) · BEPeptides International (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pain is a significant public health burden in the United States, and current treatment approaches rely heavily on opioids, which often have limited efficacy and can lead to addiction. In humans, functional loss of the voltage-gated sodium channel Na

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAnalgesicsDrug DevelopmentHEK293 CellsHumansMolecular Docking SimulationMutagenesisNAV1.2 Voltage-Gated Sodium ChannelNAV1.7 Voltage-Gated Sodium ChannelPainPeptide LibraryPoint MutationProtein EngineeringProtein IsoformsRecombinant ProteinsSpider VenomsAnalgesicshuwentoxin IV, Selenocosmia huwenaNAV1.2 Voltage-Gated Sodium ChannelNAV1.7 Voltage-Gated Sodium ChannelPeptide LibraryProtein IsoformsRecombinant ProteinsSpider VenomsVoltage-Gated Sodium Channel Blockersanalgesicantagonistmolecular modelingNav1.2Nav1.7neurotoxinpainpeptide biosynthesissodium channelspider toxin

Identifiers

PMID31871053
PMCPMC6996889
OpenAlexW2997827788

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