Abstract
The most common manifestation of Loxosceles spider envenoming is a dermonecrotic lesion at the bite site. Dermonecrotic toxins from Loxosceles gaucho venom were purified and characterized by mass spectrometry (capillary liquid chromatography followed by mass spectrometry detection). Two components were purified: a major one of 31,444 Da, called loxnecrogin A, and a minor one of 31,626 Da, called loxnecrogin B, being probably two isoforms of the toxin. The N-terminal sequence of loxnecrogin A showed similarity with N termini of other sphingomyelinolytic dermonecrotic toxins isolated from venoms of different Loxosceles species. The internal sequences did not present any statistically significant hits in sequence databases searches. However, loxnecrogin A partial sequence showed high similarity to regions of L. intermedia LiD1 recombinant protein sequence, recently described in the literature but not yet deposited in databanks.
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