Physiological and Biochemical Analysis to Reveal the Molecular Basis for BlackWidow Spiderling Toxicity
Physiological and Biochemical Analysis to Reveal the Molecular Basis for BlackWidow Spiderling Toxicity
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生理生化分析揭示黑寡妇幼蛛毒性的分子基础
DOI:
10.1002/jbt.21553
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发表时间:
2014-05-01
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
Liang, Songping
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作者:
Peng, Xiaozhen;Zhang, Yiya;Liang, Songping
The early research found that the spiderlings of black widow spider (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus) exhibited obvious toxicity to animals. The present work performed a systematical analysis of the aqueous extract of newborn black widow spiderlings. The extract was shown to contain 69.42% of proteins varying in molecular weights and isoelectric points. Abdominal injection of the extract into mice and cockroaches caused obvious poisoning symptoms as well as death, with LD50 being 5.30 mg/kg in mice and 16.74 µg/g in Periplaneta americana. Electrophysiological experiments indicated that the extract at a concentration of 10 µg/mL could completely block the neuromuscular transmission in isolated mouse nerve‐hemidiaphragm preparations within 21 ± 1.5 min, and 100 µg/mL extract could inhibit a certain percentage of voltage‐activated Na+, K+, and Ca2+ channel currents in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. These results demonstrate that the spiderlings are rich in neurotoxic components, which play important roles in the spiderling toxicity.