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Latrodectus hesperus
(western black widow)
Venom composition
Figure 1: Composition of L.hesperus venom, studied at transcriptomic level. This venom contains the following protein families: latrotoxin, latrodectin, ICK (see
knottin domain
),
CRISP
,
serine protease (peptidase S1)
, M13 metalloproteinase and chitinase (
Haney et al., 2014
).
Clinical Effects, Treatment, Antivenoms
See the
Clinical Toxinology Resources Website
.
Lethal dose
Taxonomy
UniProt taxonomy
Wikipedia
Infraorder
:
Araneae
Suborder
:
Araneomorphae
Family
:
Theridiidae
Genus:
Latrodectus
Species
:
hesperus
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Reference
Haney et al., 2014
Venom protein entries in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
(all links/actions below point to
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website)
4 entries
grouped
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4 entries
Latrodectus hesperus (Western black widow spider)
LATA_LATHE
Alpha-latrotoxin-Lhe1a (Alpha-LTX-Lhe1a) (Alpha-latrotoxin)
...
Cationic peptide 01 (latrotoxin)
...
LITD_LATHE
Delta-latroinsectotoxin-Lhe1a (Delta-LIT-Lhe1a)
...
Cationic peptide 01 (latrotoxin)
...
TXA1_LATHE
Alpha-latrotoxin associated low molecular weight protein
...
Arthropod CHH/MIH/GIH/VIH
...
TXA2_LATHE
Alpha-latrotoxin associated low molecular weight protein 2
...
Arthropod CHH/MIH/GIH/VIH
...
