Background: There are now significant evidences that lipid metabolism is affected in numerous
neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease. These dysfunctions lead to …

Many efforts aim at solving the serious problems encountered with immunotherapy against
scorpion envenoming. The most attractive approach consists in generating single-chain …

The protein composition of the crude venoms of the three most important vipers of Tunisia
was analyzed by RP‐HPLC, N‐terminal sequence analysis, MALDI‐TOF mass determination, …

Envenoming following scorpion sting is a common emergency in many parts of the world.
Our aim was to ameliorate the current 100‐kDa horse plasma antivenom serum (PAS)‐derived …

In the present work, we purified and characterized a novel toxin named hemicalcin from the
venom of the Iranian chactoid scorpion Hemiscorpius lepturus where it represents 0.6% of …

Here, we report the purification and characterization of an acidic Asp49 phospholipase A2,
named MVL-PLA2, with a molecular mass of 13,626.64 Da. The complete MVL-PLA2 cDNA …

Phospholipases type A 2 (PLA 2 s) are the most abundant proteins found in Viperidae
snake venom. They are quite fascinating from both a biological and structural point of view. …

… Mohamed El Ayeb … Limam, Inès, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Mohamed El Ayeb, Michel Crepin,
Naziha Marrakchi, and Mélanie Di Benedetto. 2023. "Disintegrin-like Protein Strategy to …

Two non-toxic PLA2s were purified to homogeneity from Cerastes cerastes Tunisian snake
venom. The purification process employed gel filtration on Sephadex G-75 followed by C18 …

We determined the structure in solution by 1 H two‐dimensional NMR of Maurocalcine from
the venom of Scorpio maurus. This toxin has been demonstrated to be a potent effector of …