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ArticleNature2025

De novo designed proteins neutralize lethal snake venom toxins.

Susana Vázquez Torres, Melisa Benard Valle, Stephen P Mackessy, Stefanie K Menzies, Nicholas R Casewell, Shirin Ahmadi, Nick J Burlet, Edin Muratspahić, Isaac Sappington, Max D Overath and 23 more

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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85citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

85 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

33 authors.

Susana Vázquez TorresDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Melisa Benard ValleDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0042-6592
Stephen P MackessyDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4515-2545
Stefanie K MenziesCentre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9273-9296
Nicholas R CasewellCentre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8035-4719
Shirin AhmadiDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
Nick J BurletDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0002-5099-3971
Edin MuratspahićDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Isaac SappingtonDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Max D OverathDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
Esperanza Rivera-de-TorreDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0272-6150
Jann LedergerberDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
Andreas H LaustsenDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6918-5574
Kim BoddumSophion Bioscience, Ballerup, Denmark.
Asim K BeraDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9473-2912
Alex KangDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5487-0499
Evans BrackenbroughDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Iara A CardosoCentre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0288-4706
Edouard P CrittendenCentre for Snakebite Research & Interventions, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1676-5457
Rebecca J EdgeDepartment of Infection Biology and Microbiomes, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Justin DecarreauDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Robert J RagotteDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Arvind S PillaiDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5012-1199
Mohamad AbediDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Hannah L HanDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4787-5168
Stacey R GerbenDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0313-6248
Analisa MurrayDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1560-6673
Rebecca SkotheimDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-0757-8432
Lynda StuartDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Lance StewartDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4264-5125
Thomas J A FryerDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.
Timothy P JenkinsDepartment of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. tpaje@dtu.dk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2979-5663
David BakerDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. dabaker@uw.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7896-6217

Funding

X-ray Scattering Technology CoreP30GM133893 · NIGMS · BROOKHAVEN SCIENCE ASSOC-BROOKHAVEN LAB · PI Vivian Stojanoff · 2019 to 2026
$38.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM133893Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Snakebite envenoming remains a devastating and neglected tropical disease, claiming over 100,000 lives annually and causing severe complications and long-lasting disabilities for many more

Indexed as

Drug DesignProtein EngineeringSnake VenomsAnimalsElapid VenomsFemaleHumansMaleMiceModels, MolecularNeurotoxinsProtein StabilitySnake BitesElapid VenomsNeurotoxinsSnake Venoms

Identifiers

PMID39814879
PMCPMC11882462

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