Lachesana tarabaevi

Lachesana tarabaevi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Zodariidae
Genus: Lachesana
Species:
L. tarabaevi
Binomial name
Lachesana tarabaevi
Zonstein & Ovtchinnikov, 1999[1]

Lachesana tarabaevi is a species of ant spider found in Central Asia.[1]

Latarcins were first isolated from L. tarabaevi venom.[2] Its venom was also used in the initial discovery of cyto-insectotoxins.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Kuzmenkov, Alexey I.; Sachkova, Maria Y.; Kovalchuk, Sergey I.; Grishin, Eugene V.; Vassilevski, Alexander A. (15 August 2016), "Lachesana tarabaevi, an expert in membrane-active toxins", Biochemical Journal, 473 (16), Portland Press: 2495โ€“2506, doi:10.1042/BCJ20160436, PMID 27287558, retrieved 30 November 2025
  2. ^ Kozlov, Sergey A.; Vassilevski, Alexander A.; Feofanov, Alexei V.; Surovoy, Andrey Y.; Karpunin, Dmitry V.; Grishin, Eugene V. (28 July 2006), "Latarcins, Antimicrobial and Cytolytic Peptides from the Venom of the Spider Lachesana tarabaevi (Zodariidae) That Exemplify Biomolecular Diversity*", Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281 (30): 20983โ€“20992, Bibcode:2006JBiCh.28120983K, doi:10.1074/jbc.M602168200, ISSN 0021-9258, PMID 16735513
  3. ^ Vassilevski, Alexander A.; Kozlov, Sergey A.; Samsonova, Olga V.; Egorova, Natalya S.; Karpunin, Dmitry V.; Pluzhnikov, Kirill A.; Feofanov, Alexei V.; Grishin, Eugene V. (1 May 2008), "Cyto-insectotoxins, a novel class of cytolytic and insecticidal peptides from spider venom", Biochemical Journal, 411 (3), Portland Press: 687โ€“696, doi:10.1042/BJ20071123, PMID 18215128, retrieved 30 November 2025