Physiological and biochemical analysis to reveal the molecular basis for black widow spiderling toxicity.

Abstract:

:The early research found that the spiderlings of black widow spider (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus) exhibited obvious toxicity to animals. The present work performed a systematical analysis of the aqueous extract of newborn black widow spiderlings. The extract was shown to contain 69.42% of proteins varying in molecular weights and isoelectric points. Abdominal injection of the extract into mice and cockroaches caused obvious poisoning symptoms as well as death, with LD50 being 5.30 mg/kg in mice and 16.74 µg/g in Periplaneta americana. Electrophysiological experiments indicated that the extract at a concentration of 10 µg/mL could completely block the neuromuscular transmission in isolated mouse nerve-hemidiaphragm preparations within 21 ± 1.5 min, and 100 µg/mL extract could inhibit a certain percentage of voltage-activated Na⁺, K⁺, and Ca²⁺ channel currents in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons. These results demonstrate that the spiderlings are rich in neurotoxic components, which play important roles in the spiderling toxicity.

journal_name

J Biochem Mol Toxicol

authors

Peng X,Zhang Y,Liu J,Yu H,Chen J,Lei Q,Wang X,Liang S

doi

10.1002/jbt.21553

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-05-01 00:00:00

pages

198-205

issue

5

eissn

1095-6670

issn

1099-0461

journal_volume

28

pub_type

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