Unlocking the Deep Secrets of Toxins
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 117
Special Issue Editors
Interests: animal toxins; biochemistry; enzymology; imine toxin; molecular toxinology; neurobiology; neuroscience; pathology; pharmacology; phycotoxins; physiology; snake venom; structure-function relationships; synapses
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Interests: animal toxins; animal venom; electrophysiology; ion channel; neurobiology; neuropharmacology; neurophysiology; neurotransmission; patch clamp
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Interests: aquatic ecotoxicology; cyanotoxins; ecophysiology; harmful algal blooms; photosynthetic protists; stress responses; trophic interactions
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Interests: bacterial, botulinum, clostridial, and pore-forming toxins; cellular uptake; interactions with actin cytoskeleton; passage through epithelial barrier; regulation of synthesis; Rho-GTPases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural substances have been of interest for centuries, and many organic or peptidic toxins of bacterial, fungal, algal, plant, and animal origin have been identified, characterized, and used worldwide as poisons or weapons, drugs for medical conditions, probes for fundamental research, or tools for the industry.
In this Special Issue of the journal Toxins, entitled "Unlocking the Deep Secrets of Toxins", research and review articles concerning recent discoveries in the fields of animal venoms and of natural toxins and their derivatives will be presented to cover broad areas ranging from the discovery of new toxin producers and toxins in the environment and the analysis of their ecological, economical, and societal impacts, to the characterization of new toxins with original structural determinants, modes of actions, receptor-subtype specificities, and to their applicability in a health or biotechnological context, either directly or as molecular templates for the engineering of new compounds. This Special Issue is open, albeit not restricted, to all speakers and delegates of the 30th Meeting on Toxinology (RT30) organized by the French Society of Toxinology (SFET, http://sfet.asso.fr/international/) on December 02-03, 2024, at Hôtel Le Saint Paul in Nice, France.
Dr. Pascale Marchot
Dr. Sylvie Diochot
Dr. Katia Comte
Dr. Michel R. Popoff
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- algal toxin
- animal toxin
- anti-toxin
- anti-venom
- bacterial toxin
- contaminant
- drug design
- envenomation
- environment
- evolution
- food chain
- fungal toxin
- genomics
- health
- ion channel
- marine toxin
- mechanism of action
- plant toxin
- production
- proteomics
- receptor
- therapeutics
- toxin engineering
- toxinomics
- toxin producer
- structure-function relationship
- screening
- tool
- trophic network
- venom
- venomics
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