Open AccessA Pungent and Painful Toxin
Author(s) -
Dustin P. Green,
Xinzhong Dong
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.016
Subject(s) - biology , venom , scorpion , toxin , receptor , ion channel , peptide , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , ecology , genetics , biochemistry
In this issue of Cell, King et al. (2019) have discovered a cell penetrating peptide isolated from the venom of the Australian Black Rock scorpion that activates the TRPA1 receptor in a unique way to induce pain. Their findings offer new insights into how animals evolved venoms to target specific ion channel functions.
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