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ArticleToxins2022

Exploring the Utility of ssDNA Aptamers Directed against Snake Venom Toxins as New Therapeutics for Snakebite Envenoming.

Nessrin Alomran, Raja Chinnappan, Jaffer Alsolaiss, Nicholas R Casewell, Mohammed Zourob

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Article in Toxins, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nessrin AlomranCentre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.
Raja ChinnappanDepartment of Chemistry, Alfaisal University, Al Zahrawi Street, Al Maather, Al Takhassusi Road, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-2288-4287
Jaffer AlsolaissCentre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9983-0191
Nicholas R CasewellCentre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8035-4719
Mohammed ZourobDepartment of Chemistry, Alfaisal University, Al Zahrawi Street, Al Maather, Al Takhassusi Road, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-2187-1430
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine · GBAlfaisal University · SA

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 200517/Z/16/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Snakebite is a neglected tropical disease that causes considerable death and disability in the tropical world. Although snakebite can cause a variety of pathologies in victims, haemotoxic effects are particularly common and are typically characterised by haemorrhage and/or venom-induced consumption coagulopathy. Antivenoms are the mainstay therapy for treating the toxic effects of snakebite, but despite saving thousands of lives annually, these therapies are associated with limited cross-snake species efficacy due to venom variation, which ultimately restricts their therapeutic utility to particular geographical regions. In this study, we sought to explore the potential of ssDNA aptamers as toxin-specific inhibitory alternatives to antibodies. As a proof of principle model, we selected snake venom serine protease toxins, which are responsible for contributing to venom-induced coagulopathy following snakebite envenoming, as our target. Using SELEX technology, we selected ssDNA aptamers against recombinantly expressed versions of the fibrinogenolytic SVSPs ancrod from the venom of

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Disseminated Intravascular CoagulationSnake BitesAntiveninsHemorrhageHumansSnake VenomsAntiveninsSnake Venomsin vitro assaysrecombinant toxinsSELEX selectionsnakebite envenomingsnake venom serine proteasesssDNA aptamers

Identifiers

PMID35878207
PMCPMC9318713
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