IMR Press / FBL / Volume 26 / Issue 11 / DOI: 10.52586/5022
Open Access Review
Discovery of novel peptide neurotoxins from sea anemone species
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1 Key Laboratory of Tropical Translational Medicine of Ministry of Education, Hainan Key Laboratory for Research and Development of Tropical Herbs, Hainan Medical University, 571199 Haikou, Hainan, China
2 Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
*Correspondence: a.jin@imb.uq.edu.au (Ai-Hua Jin); gaobingmiao@hainmc.edu.cn (Bingmiao Gao)
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2021, 26(11), 1256–1273; https://doi.org/10.52586/5022
Submitted: 10 June 2021 | Revised: 21 October 2021 | Accepted: 25 October 2021 | Published: 30 November 2021
Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by BRI.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Abstract

As primitive metazoa, sea anemones are rich in various bioactive peptide neurotoxins. These peptides have been applied to neuroscience research tools or directly developed as marine drugs. To date, more than 1100 species of sea anemones have been reported, but only 5% of the species have been used to isolate and identify sea anemone peptide neurotoxins. There is an urgent need for more systematic discovery and study of peptide neurotoxins in sea anemones. In this review, we have gathered the currently available methods from crude venom purification and gene cloning to venom multiomics, employing these techniques for discovering novel sea anemone peptide neurotoxins. In addition, the three-dimensional structures and targets of sea anemone peptide neurotoxins are summarized. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to provide a reference for the discovery, development, and utilization of sea anemone peptide neurotoxins.

Keywords
Sea anemone
Peptide neurotoxins
Transcriptomics
Proteomics
Multiomics
Three-dimensional structure
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