Editorial: Structural and functional venomics as a powerful approach for drug discovery and development

Mohamed A Abdel-Rahman; Zhijian Cao; Tarek Mohamed Abd El-Aziz; Peter N Strong; Jean-Marc Sabatier

doi:10.3389/fphar.2024.1405681

Editorial: Structural and functional venomics as a powerful approach for drug discovery and development

Front Pharmacol. 2024 Apr 10:15:1405681. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2024.1405681. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Mohamed A Abdel-Rahman¹, Zhijian Cao², Tarek Mohamed Abd El-Aziz^{3

4}, Peter N Strong⁵, Jean-Marc Sabatier⁶

Affiliations

¹ Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt.
² National "111" Center for Cellular Regulation and Molecular Pharmaceutics, Key Laboratory of Fermentation Engineering (Ministry of Education), School of Life and Health Sciences, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, United States.
⁴ Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Minia University, El-Minia, Egypt.
⁵ Biomolecular Sciences Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
⁶ Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, INP, Marseille, France.

No abstract available

Keywords: animal venoms; antivenomics; drug discovery; toxinome; venome gland transcriptome; venome peptidome; venomics.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. MA-R receives funding to support his venomics research from the Science, Technology & Innovation Funding Authority (STDF, Egypt; ID 45890) and the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT, Egypt).