| Literature DB >> 26421741 |
Jorge L B Neves1, Zhenjian Lin, Julita S Imperial, Agostinho Antunes1, Vitor Vasconcelos1, Baldomero M Olivera, Eric W Schmidt.
Abstract
Cone snails are renowned for producing peptide-based venom, containing conopeptides and conotoxins, to capture their prey. A novel small-molecule guanine derivative with unprecedented features, genuanine, was isolated from the venom of two cone snail species. Genuanine causes paralysis in mice, indicating that small molecules and not just polypeptides may contribute to the activity of cone snail venom.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26421741 PMCID: PMC4845746 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b02389
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Org Lett ISSN: 1523-7052 Impact factor: 6.005