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Toxins and Signalling Evelyne Benoit, Françoise Goudey-Perriere, P. Marchot, Denis Servent To cite this version: Evelyne Benoit, Françoise Goudey-Perriere, P. Marchot, Denis Servent. Toxins and Signalling. SFET Publications, Châtenay-Malabry, France, pp.204, 2009. hal-00738643 HAL Id: hal-00738643 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00738643 Submitted on 21 May 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Collection Rencontres en Toxinologie © E. JOVER et al. TTooxxiinneess eett SSiiggnnaalliissaattiioonn -- TTooxxiinnss aanndd SSiiggnnaalllliinngg © B.J. LAVENTIE et al. Comité d’édition – Editorial committee : Evelyne BENOIT, Françoise GOUDEY-PERRIERE, Pascale MARCHOT, Denis SERVENT Société Française pour l'Etude des Toxines French Society of Toxinology Illustrations de couverture – Cover pictures : En haut – Top : Les effets intracellulaires multiples des toxines botuliques et de la toxine tétanique - The multiple intracellular effects of the BoNTs and TeNT. (Copyright Emmanuel JOVER, Fréderic DOUSSAU, Etienne LONCHAMP, Laetitia WIOLAND, Jean-Luc DUPONT, Jordi MOLGÓ, Michel POPOFF, Bernard POULAIN) En bas - Bottom : Structure tridimensionnelle de l’alpha-toxine staphylocoque - Tridimensional structure of staphylococcal alpha-toxin. (Copyright Benoit-Joseph LAVENTIE, Daniel KELLER, Emmanuel JOVER, Gilles PREVOST) Collection Rencontres en Toxinologie La collection « Rencontres en Toxinologie » est publiée à l’occasion des Colloques annuels « Rencontres en Toxinologie » organisés par la Société Française pour l’Etude des Toxines (SFET). Les ouvrages imprimés parus de 2001 à 2007 ont été édités par Elsevier (Paris, France) puis la Librairie Lavoisier (Cachan, France). Depuis 2008, ils sont édités par la SFET et diffusés sur le site http://www.sfet.asso.fr, en libre accès pour les auteurs et les lecteurs. The series « Rencontres en Toxinologie » is published on the occasion of the annual Meetings on Toxinology organized by the French Society of Toxinology (SFET). The printed books of the series, from 2001 to 2007, were edited by Elsevier (Paris, France) and then the Librairie Lavoisier (Cachan, France). Since 2008, they are edited by the SFET and are available on-line on the site http://www.sfet.asso.fr, with free access for authors and readers. Titres parus – Previous titles Explorer, exploiter les toxines et maîtriser les organismes producteurs Cassian Bon, Françoise Goudey-Perrière, Bernard Poulain, Simone Puiseux-Dao Elsevier, Paris, 2001 ISBN : 2-84299-359-4 Toxines et recherches biomédicales Françoise Goudey-Perrière, Cassian Bon, Simone Puiseux-Dao, Martin-Pierre Sauviat Elsevier, Paris, 2002 ISBN : 2-84299-445-0 Toxinogenèse – Biosynthèse, ingénierie, polymorphisme et neutralisation des toxines Françoise Goudey-Perrière, Cassian Bon, André Ménez, Simone Puiseux-Dao Elsevier, Paris, 2003 ISBN : 2-84299-481-7 Envenimations, intoxinations Françoise Goudey-Perrière, Evelyne Benoit, Simone Puiseux-Dao, Cassian Bon Librairie Lavoisier, Cachan, 2004 ISBN : 2-7430-0749-4 Toxines et douleur Cassian Bon, Françoise Goudey-Perrière, Max Goyffon, Martin-Pierre Sauviat Librairie Lavoisier, Cachan, 2005 ISBN : 2-7430-0849-0 Toxines et cancer Françoise Goudey-Perrière, Evelyne Benoit, Max Goyffon, Pascale Marchot Librairie Lavoisier, Cachan, 2006 ISBN : 2-7430-0958-6 Toxines émergentes : nouveaux risques Françoise Goudey-Perrière, Evelyne Benoit, Pascale Marchot, Michel R. Popoff Librairie Lavoisier, Cachan, 2007 ISBN : 978-2-7430-1037-9 Toxines et fonctions cholinergiques neuronales et non neuronales Evelyne Benoit, Françoise Goudey-Perrière, Pascale Marchot et Denis Servent Publications de la SFET, Châtenay-Malabry, France, 2008 Epub on http://www.sfet.asso.fr - ISSN 1760-6004 Cet ouvrage est publié à l’occasion du colloque « 17èmes Rencontres en Toxinologie », organisé par la Société Française pour l’Etude des Toxines (SFET) les 2 et 3 décembre 2009 à Paris. This book is published on the occasion of the 17th Meeting on Toxinology, organized by the French Society of Toxinology (SFET) on December 2nd and 3rd, 2009, in Paris. Le comité d’organisation est constitué de – The organizing committee is constituted of : Evelyne Benoit, Blandine Gény, Françoise Goudey-Perrière, Nathalie Hatchi, Michel Popoff et-and Denis Servent. Le comité scientifique est constitué de – The scientific committee is constituted of : Joseph Alouf, Evelyne Benoit, Blandine Gény, Françoise Goudey-Perrière, Max Goyffon, Françoise Grolleau, Pascale Marchot, Jordi Molgó, Michel R. Popoff, Bernard Poulain, Simone Puiseux-Dao et-and Denis Servent. Le comité de rédaction est constitué de – The redaction committee is constituted of : Rechdi Ahdab, Julien Barbier, Evelyne Benoit, Patrick Breton, Jean-Philippe Chippaux, Cesare Colasante, Frédéric Ducancel, Philippe Favreau, Robert Frangež, Blandine Gény, Nicolas Gilles, Françoise Goudey-Perrière, Max Goyffon, Françoise Grolleau, Eric Krejci, Thierry Kuntzer, Anne-Lise Lobstein, Pascale Marchot, Jordi Molgó, Nicolas Perrière, Michel R. Popoff, Bernard Poulain, Nicolas Puillandre, Simone Puiseux-Dao, Denis Servent, Annick Simon et-and Dušan Šuput. Sommaire - Content Pages Toxines et signalisation – Toxins and signalling Signalling pathways activated by Clostridium perfringens alpha-toxin 7-12 Richard W. TITBALL, Andrew CARNEGIE, Ajit K. BASAK, Christopher GREEN, David S. MOSS, Claire E. NAYLOR Lethal toxin from Clostridium sordellii modifies, sequentially or independently, 13-21 several cellular signalling pathways Blandine GENY , Michel POPOFF De l’ interact ion avec le s me mbranes des le uco tox ines stap hylococciq ues, à le ur 23-29 impact sur l’immunité innée Benoit-Joseph LAVENTIE, Daniel KELLER, Emmanuel JOVER, Gilles PREVOST Intracellular actions of botulinum and tetanus neurotoxins: SNARE cleavage but 31-44 not only ! Emmanuel JOVER, Fréderic DOUSSAU, Etienne LONCHAMP, Laetitia WIOLAND, Jean-Luc DUPONT, Jordi MOLGÓ, Michel POPOFF, Bernard POULAIN Activation of heterotrimeric G proteins by Pasteure lla multo cida toxin 45-50 Joachim H.C. ORTH, Klaus AKTORIES Recent advances in marine phycotoxin mechanisms of action 51-56 Amparo ALFONSO, Carmen VALE, Natalia VILARIÑO, Juan RUBIOLO, M. Carmen LOUZAO, Mercedes R. VIEYTES, Luis M. BOTANA Proteomic analyses for the characterization of toxicity pathways and their 57-61 interactions in human cells : learning from marine biotoxins Gian Luca SALA, Giuseppe RONZITTI, Mirella BELLOCCI, Makoto SASAKI, Haruhiko FU WA, Takeshi Y ASUMOT O, Albertino BI GI ANI, Gian Paolo ROSSI NI Use of maurocalcine analogues as biotechnological tools for the penetration of cell- 63-71 impermeable compounds Cathy POILLOT, Michel DE WAARD Toxines et autres fonctions – Toxins and other functions Les Amoebophrya, parasitoïdes de dinoflagellés toxiques 73-78 Aurélie CHAMBOUVET, Laure GUILLOU Gymnodimines : a family of phycotoxins contaminating shellfish 79-83 Riadh MARROUCHI, Evelyne BENOIT, Riadh KHARRAT, Jordi MOLGO Effets thérapeutiques, antidotiques, antiparasitaires et toxiques des 85-96 inhibiteurs de l’acétylcholinestérase : importance des phytotoxines et de leurs dérivés Nicole PAGES, Françoise GOUDEY-PERRIERE, Patrick BRETON L’huperzine A, un inhibiteur prometteur de l’acétylcholinestérase 97-108 Nicole PAGES, Françoise GOUDEY-PERRIERE, Patrick BRETON Characterization of new phytotoxins targeting cholinesterases : a potential 109-122 therapeutic use in Alzheimer’s disease ? Nicole PAGES, Patrick BRETON, Françoise GOUDEY-PERRIERE A non-invasive method to appraise time-dependent effects of toxins on the 123-130 mouse neuromuscular excitability in vivo, and its clinical applications Delphine BOERIO-GUEGUEN, Jean-Pascal LEFAUCHEUR, Alain CREANGE, Evelyne BENOIT Effects of ostreolysin, a protein from the oyster mushroom Pleurotus 131-134 ostreatus, on the mouse neuromuscular system in vivo Delphine BOERIO-GUEGUEN, Robert FRANGEŽ, Kristina SEPČIĆ, Evelyne BENOIT Renewed taxonomy : phylogeny and species delimitation in an integrative 135-143 framework Nicolas PUILLANDRE Les Mollusques marins venimeux 145-154 Anne DESCOURS, Philippe FAVREAU Conus consors_Capture - 1min30 movie Le point sur les chlorotoxines des venins de scorpion 155-158 Jean-Pierre ROSSO, Pierre-Edouard BOUGI S, Marie-France MARTIN-EAUCLAIRE L’immunothérapie peut-elle réduire le dysfonctionnement rénal induit par 159-160 le venin du scorpion Androctonus australis hector ? 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    1 Mobilising molluscan models and genomes in biology 2 Angus Davison1 and Maurine Neiman2 3 1. School of Life Sciences, University Park, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK 4 2. Department of Biology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA and Department of Gender, 5 Women's, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa, City, IA, USA 6 Abstract 7 Molluscs are amongst the most ancient, diverse, and important of all animal taxa. Even so, 8 no individual mollusc species has emerged as a broadly applied model system in biology. 9 We here make the case that both perceptual and methodological barriers have played a role 10 in the relative neglect of molluscs as research organisms. We then summarize the current 11 application and potential of molluscs and their genomes to address important questions in 12 animal biology, and the state of the field when it comes to the availability of resources such 13 as genome assemblies, cell lines, and other key elements necessary to mobilising the 14 development of molluscan model systems. We conclude by contending that a cohesive 15 research community that works together to elevate multiple molluscan systems to ‘model’ 16 status will create new opportunities in addressing basic and applied biological problems, 17 including general features of animal evolution. 18 Introduction 19 Molluscs are globally important as sources of food, calcium and pearls, and as vectors of 20 human disease. From an evolutionary perspective, molluscs are notable for their remarkable 21 diversity: originating over 500 million years ago, there are over 70,000 extant mollusc 22 species [1], with molluscs present in virtually every ecosystem.
  • Description of a New Species of the Genus Raphitoma Bellardi, 1847 from the Mediterranean Sea (Mollusca Neogastropoda Conoidea Raphitomidae)

    Description of a New Species of the Genus Raphitoma Bellardi, 1847 from the Mediterranean Sea (Mollusca Neogastropoda Conoidea Raphitomidae)

    Biodiversity Journal, 2017, 8 (1): 205–210 MONOGRAPH Description of a new species of the genus Raphitoma Bellardi, 1847 from the Mediterranean Sea (Mollusca Neogastropoda Conoidea Raphitomidae) Francesco Pusateri1, Riccardo Giannuzzi Savelli2* & Peter Stahlschmidt3 1via Castellana 64, 90135 Palermo, Italy; e-mail: [email protected] 2via Mater Dolorosa 54, 90146 Palermo, Italy; e-mail: [email protected] 3University of Koblenz-Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Fortstraße 7 - 76829 Landau, Germany; e-mail: [email protected] *Corresponding author ABSTRACT The family of Raphitomidae is currently considered a well supported clade of the Conoidea. The type genus Raphitoma Bellardi, 1847 is well known in the mediterranen Seas with about 40 species, some of which are still undescribed. Morphological analyses carried out on the genus Raphitoma Bellardi, 1847 (Mollusca Neogastropoda Conoidea Raphitomidae) from Mediterranean Sea allowed to identify a new species which is described in the present paper. KEY WORDS Raphitoma; Conoidea; new species; Mediterranean Sea. Received 12.01.2016; accepted 28.02.2017; printed 30.03.2017 Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress “Biodiversity, Mediterranean, Society”, September 4th-6th 2015, Noto- Vendicari (Italy) INTRODUCTION as “turrids”, and Turridae s.s. including some of the traditional “turrids”. More recently, Puillandre et al. The Raphitomidae Bellardi, 1875 are currently (2008) and Bouchet et al. (2011), based on DNA considered a well supported clade of the Conoidea phylogeny, have provided a major update of con- (Bouchet et al., 2011). oidean classification. Although a larger taxonomic The superfamily Conoidea, with over 300 gen- coverage would be desirable to further stabilize the era and 4,000 recognised species, but probably over molecular phylogeny, however, the position of the 12,000 extant species (Bouchet, 1990; Tucker, Raphitomidae as a clade of the Conoidea is suffi- 2004), represents the largest radiation of the entire ciently supported.