Table 1.
Characteristics of anthelmintic ponericins isolated from N. apicalis and N. commutata venoms.
| Ant | Toxin | Sequence | Monoisotopic mass (Da) |
Net charge | Ponericin subfamily | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theoretical | Observed | |||||
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| N. apicalis | M-PONTX–Na1b | FLGALLKIGAKLLPSVVGLFKKKQQ | 2695.7 | 2695.6 | +5 | w |
| N. commutata | M-PONTX–Nc1a | FWGAAAKMLGKALPGLISMFQKN | 2478.3 | 2478.0 | +3 | w |
| M-PONTX–Nc2a | FVKELWDKVKKMGSAAWSAAKGAFA | 2725.4 | 2725.2 | +3 | L | |
| M-PONTX–Nc3a | GWKDWLNKAKDFIKEKGPEILRAAANAAIN | 3366.8 | 3366.5 | +2 | G | |
| M-PONTX–Nc3b | AGTKEWLNKAKDFIKEKGLGMLSAAANAALN | 3259.7 | 3259.5 | +2 | G | |