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ArticleThe journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases2024

Isolation and cDNA cloning of four peptide toxins from the sea anemone

Tomohiro Homma, Masami Ishida, Yuji Nagashima, Kazuo Shiomi

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  3. Marine natural products.Natural product reports · 2026
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  5. Cnidarian toxins: omics approaches and recombinant proteins.The journal of venomous animals and toxins including tropical diseases · 2025
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Tomohiro HommaDepartment of Marine Biology and Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, Tokai University, Sapporo, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9705-6574
Masami IshidaDepartment of Ocean Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
Yuji NagashimaDepartment of Agro-Food Science, Niigata Agro-Food University, Niigata, Japan.
Kazuo ShiomiDepartment of Food Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

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Abstract

Background: Sea anemones are well known to contain multiple peptide toxins. However, of more than 1100 species of sea anemones distributed worldwide, only a little over 50 have been studied for peptide toxins. Therefore, innumerable unique and novel peptide toxins remain to be discovered in unstudied sea anemones. Methods: Isolation of peptide toxins in the sea anemone Results: Hau I and IV were potently lethal to crabs, whereas Hau II and III were only paralytic. The precursor proteins of the four toxins were commonly composed of a signal peptide, a propart, and the remaining region including a mature peptide. Interestingly, four and two copies of the mature peptide were present in the precursor proteins of Hau II and III, respectively. Homology searches revealed that Hau I (30 amino acid residues) is a novel peptide toxin, although it has the same cysteine pattern CXXC-C-C as the boundless β-hairpin (BBH) family. Hau II (27 amino acid residues) and III (28 amino acid residues) were homologous with the BBH family, whereas Hau IV (49 amino acid residues) was a new member of the well-known type 1 sodium channel toxin family. Conclusion: This study showed that a novel class of toxin (Hau I), two BBH family toxins (Hau II and III), and a type 1 sodium channel toxin (Hau IV) are present in the toxin of the sea anemone

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Crab toxicityHeteractis auroraPeptide toxinSea anemone

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