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SUBMITTER: Becker S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2755758 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Becker Stefan S Terlau Heinrich H
Applied microbiology and biotechnology 20080314 1
Cone snails are marine predators that use venoms to immobilize their prey. The venoms of these mollusks contain a cocktail of peptides that mainly target different voltage- and ligand-gated ion channels. Typically, conopeptides consist of ten to 30 amino acids but conopeptides with more than 60 amino acids have also been described. Due to their extraordinary pharmacological properties, conopeptides gained increasing interest in recent years. There are several conopeptides used in clinical trials ...[more]