Venomics of Scorpion <i>Ananteris platnicki</i> (Lourenco, 1993), a New World Buthid That Inhabits Costa Rica and Panama.

ABSTRACT: Ananteris is a scorpion genus that inhabits dry and seasonal areas of South and Central America. It is located in a distinctive morpho-group of Buthids, the 'Ananteris group', which also includes species distributed in the Old World. Because of the lack of information on venom composition, the study of Ananteris species could have biological and medical relevance. We conducted a venomics analysis of Ananteris platnicki, a tiny scorpion that inhabits Panama and Costa Rica, which shows the presence of putative toxins targeting ion channels, as well as proteins with similarity to hyaluronidases, proteinases, phospholipases A₂, members of the CAP-domain family, and hemocyanins, among others. Venom proteolytic and hyaluronidase activities were corroborated

SUBMITTER: Diaz C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11360313 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature