Antimicrobial resistance is a global issue, making the search for a new generation of antibiotics imperative. Scientists ...

Like other venomous animals investigated by his team, funnel-web spider venom contains small proteins or peptides that interact with, and modulate the activity of, ion channels and receptors in ...

"But spider venom peptides [proteins] have high selectivity ... insect and entering their equivalent of a bloodstream. "They're neurotoxins, so they're acting on the key neuroreceptors and ...

Hanson and Stevens 1 recently reported the cocrystal structure of the botulinum neurotoxin B light chain in complex with a 38-residue target peptide of synaptobrevin II. Based on a careful ...