Simon C. Wagstaff

Publications

• A Decoy-Receptor Approach Using Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Mimics Reveals Their Potential As Novel Therapeutics Against Neurotoxic Snakebite
  Frontiers in Pharmacology. 2019  |   Pubmed ID: 31417406
• Intact Protein Mass Spectrometry Reveals Intraspecies Variations in Venom Composition of a Local Population of Vipera Kaznakovi in Northeastern Turkey
  Journal of Proteomics. May, 2019  |   Pubmed ID: 30763806
• Defining the Pathogenic Threat of Envenoming by South African Shield-nosed and Coral Snakes (genus Aspidelaps), and Revealing the Likely Efficacy of Available Antivenom
  Journal of Proteomics. Apr, 2019  |   Pubmed ID: 30290233
• Comparative 1D Blue-Native Electrophoresis Analysis of Plasmodium Falciparum and Human Proteins Associated with Cytoadherence
  Malaria Journal. Aug, 2018  |   Pubmed ID: 30103779
• The Medical Threat of Mamba Envenoming in Sub-Saharan Africa Revealed by Genus-wide Analysis of Venom Composition, Toxicity and Antivenomics Profiling of Available Antivenoms
  Journal of Proteomics. 02, 2018  |   Pubmed ID: 28843532
• The Evolution of Fangs, Venom, and Mimicry Systems in Blenny Fishes
  Current Biology : CB. Apr, 2017  |   Pubmed ID: 28366739
• What Killed Karl Patterson Schmidt? Combined Venom Gland Transcriptomic, Venomic and Antivenomic Analysis of the South African Green Tree Snake (the Boomslang), Dispholidus Typus
  Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. General Subjects. Apr, 2017  |   Pubmed ID: 28130154
• Stabilising the Integrity of Snake Venom MRNA Stored Under Tropical Field Conditions Expands Research Horizons
  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 06, 2016  |   Pubmed ID: 27280729
• Firing the Sting: Chemically Induced Discharge of Cnidae Reveals Novel Proteins and Peptides from Box Jellyfish (Chironex Fleckeri) Venom
  Toxins. Mar, 2015  |   Pubmed ID: 25793725
• VTBuilder: a Tool for the Assembly of Multi Isoform Transcriptomes
  BMC Bioinformatics. Dec, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25465054
• Dissecting the Organ Specificity of Insecticide Resistance Candidate Genes in Anopheles Gambiae: Known and Novel Candidate Genes
  BMC Genomics. Nov, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25421852
• Medically Important Differences in Snake Venom Composition Are Dictated by Distinct Postgenomic Mechanisms
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 06, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 24927555
• Evolutionary Analysis of Novel Serine Proteases in the Venom Gland Transcriptome of Bitis Gabonica Rhinoceros
  PloS One. 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21731776
• Research Strategies to Improve Snakebite Treatment: Challenges and Progress
  Journal of Proteomics. Aug, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21723969
• Domain Loss Facilitates Accelerated Evolution and Neofunctionalization of Duplicate Snake Venom Metalloproteinase Toxin Genes
  Molecular Biology and Evolution. Sep, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21478373
• Pre-clinical Assays Predict Pan-African Echis Viper Efficacy for a Species-specific Antivenom
  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Oct, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 21049058
• Purification and Functional Characterisation of Rhiminopeptidase A, a Novel Aminopeptidase from the Venom of Bitis Gabonica Rhinoceros
  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Aug, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20706583
• Analysis of Camelid IgG for Antivenom Development: Immunoreactivity and Preclinical Neutralisation of Venom-induced Pathology by IgG Subclasses, and the Effect of Heat Treatment
  Toxicon : Official Journal of the International Society on Toxinology. Sep, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20547172
• Analysis of Camelid Antibodies for Antivenom Development: Neutralisation of Venom-induced Pathology
  Toxicon : Official Journal of the International Society on Toxinology. Sep, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20412814
• Analysis of Camelid IgG for Antivenom Development: Serological Responses of Venom-immunised Camels to Prepare Either Monospecific or Polyspecific Antivenoms for West Africa
  Toxicon : Official Journal of the International Society on Toxinology. Sep, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20362604
• Snake Envenoming: a Disease of Poverty
  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Dec, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 20027216
• Comparative Venom Gland Transcriptome Surveys of the Saw-scaled Vipers (Viperidae: Echis) Reveal Substantial Intra-family Gene Diversity and Novel Venom Transcripts
  BMC Genomics. Nov, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19948012
• Combined Snake Venomics and Venom Gland Transcriptomic Analysis of the Ocellated Carpet Viper, Echis Ocellatus
  Journal of Proteomics. Jan, 2009  |   Pubmed ID: 19026773
• Molecular Characterisation of Endogenous Snake Venom Metalloproteinase Inhibitors
  Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. Jan, 2008  |   Pubmed ID: 18029259
• Identification of CDNAs Encoding Viper Venom Hyaluronidases: Cross-generic Sequence Conservation of Full-length and Unusually Short Variant Transcripts
  Gene. May, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17210232
• Bioinformatics and Multiepitope DNA Immunization to Design Rational Snake Antivenom
  PLoS Medicine. Jun, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16737347
• Venom Gland EST Analysis of the Saw-scaled Viper, Echis Ocellatus, Reveals Novel Alpha9beta1 Integrin-binding Motifs in Venom Metalloproteinases and a New Group of Putative Toxins, Renin-like Aspartic Proteases
  Gene. Aug, 2006  |   Pubmed ID: 16713134
• Characterization of a Novel Protein from Proatheris Superciliaris Venom: Proatherocytin, a 34-kDa Platelet Receptor PAR1 Agonist
  Toxicon : Official Journal of the International Society on Toxinology. Oct, 2005  |   Pubmed ID: 16112700