Chuchu Zhang et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(12), E2524-E2532 (2017-03-08)
Pain-producing animal venoms contain evolutionarily honed toxins that can be exploited to study and manipulate somatosensory and nociceptive signaling pathways. From a functional screen, we have identified a secreted phospholipase A2 (sPLA2)-like protein, BomoTx, from the Brazilian lancehead pit viper