Specialized insulin is used for chemical warfare by fish-hunting cone snails

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1743-1748

  Safavi Hemami, Helena ^a,b   Gajewiak, Joanna ^a   Karanth, Santhosh ^c   Robinson, Samuel D ^d   Ueberheide, Beatrix ^e   Douglass, Adam D ^c   Schlegel, Amnon ^c   Imperial, Julita S ^a   Watkins, Maren ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Pradip K ^a   Yandell, Mark ^a,c   Li, Qing ^c   Purcell, Anthony W ^d   Norton, Raymond S ^d   Ellgaard, Lars ^b   Olivera, Baldomero M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Copenhagen Biocenter ^*  (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cone snails; Conotoxins; Insulin shock; Nirvana cabal; Venom

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; INSULIN; SNAIL VENOM;

ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CHEMICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONUS GEOGRAPHUS; CONUS SNAIL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISULFIDE BOND; ENERGY METABOLISM; FISH; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SHOCK;

CONUS GEOGRAPHUS; CONUS TULIPA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 84922601654     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423857112     Document Type: Article

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