作者:Jorge L. B. Neves、Zhenjian Lin、Julita S. Imperial、Agostinho Antunes、Vitor Vasconcelos、Baldomero M. Olivera、Eric W. Schmidt
DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.5b02389
日期:2015.10.16
Cone snails are renowned for producing peptide-based venom, containing conopeptides and conotoxins, to capture their prey. A novel small-molecule guanine derivative with unprecedented features, genuanine, was isolated from the venom of two cone snail species. Genuanine causes paralysis in mice, indicating that small molecules and not just polypeptides may contribute to the activity of cone snail venom.