Supported by Special Scientific Research Project of the Hainan Academician Innovation Platform,China(YSPTZX202132);Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation,China(820RC636);Hainan Provincial Key Point Research and Invention Program,China(ZDYF2022SHFZ309).
The voltage-gated sodium channel(Na v)is widely present in mammals and can generate cell action potentials,which are related to many diseases.Theμ-Conotoxins(μ-CTx)isolated from the venom of cone snails can specific...
Conus loroisii is a marine vermivorous snail found profusely in the southern seas of India.They harbor several toxic peptide components commonly called as‘conotoxins’.In this study,we have identified and sequenced f...
funded by Vietnam National Foundation for Science and Technology Development(NAFOSTED)under grant number 106-NN.02-2015.14
Objective:To determine the new M-superfamily conotoxins from molluscivorous snail Conus bandanus in Vietnam.Methods:Conus bandanus venom was fractionated and purified on HPLC system with an analytical reversed-phase C...
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors(nAChRs) are widely distributed ligand gated ion channels throughout the peripheral and central nervous systems of mammals.There are 16 different n AChR subunits,α1-α7,α9,α10 and ...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21778001)
Recently, medicinal peptide molecules are of great interest to many international pharmaceutical companies, mainly because of their relatively lower research costs, shorter research cycles, and the greater likelihood ...
Supported by Natural Science Foundation of China(81560611);Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province(No.317170)
[ Objective] The disulfide-rich conotoxin MrV1B was produced by simple and fast genetic engineering method, to find new efficient ways for the synthesis of natural active conotoxins. [Method] Primers of conotoxin gene...
α-Conotoxins are small disulfide-constrained peptides that act as potent and selective antagonists on specific subtypes of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). We previously cloned two α-conotoxins, Mrl.1 f...
In our efforts for cloning novel I2-superfamily conotoxins using the signal peptide sequence, we identified a novel conotoxin Lt12.4 from Conus litteratus. This gene has a framework XII (-C-C-C-C-CC-C-C-), which is ...
Every cone snail produces a mixture of different conotoxins and secretes them to immobilize their prey and predators, α3/5 Conotoxins, isolated from fish-hunting cone snails, target muscle nicotinic acetylcholine rec...
A group of CAS scientists have succeeded in purifying many conotoxins 2nd cioning more than 100 new genes from six species of cone snails living in waters off the coast of the South China Sea. paving the way for the d...