Helena Safavi

Helena Safavi

Associate Professor, Guest Researcher

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    ORCID: 0000-0002-1984-2721

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    1. Fish-hunting cone snail venoms are a rich source of minimized ligands of the vertebrate insulin receptor

      Ahorukomeye, P., Disotuar, M. M., Gajewiak, J., Karanth, S., Watkins, M., Robinson, S. D., Flórez Salcedo, P., Smith, N. A., Smith, B. J., Schlegel, A., Forbes, B. E., Olivera, B., Hung-Chieh Chou, D. & Safavi, Helena, 2019, In: eLife. 8, 28 p., e41574.

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    2. Insights into the origins of fish hunting in venomous cone snails from studies of Conus tessulatus

      Aman, J. W., Imperial, J. S., Ueberheide, B., Zhang, M., Aguilar, M., Taylor, D., Watkins, M., Yoshikami, D., Showers-Corneli, P., Safavi, Helena, Biggs, J., Teichert, R. W. & Olivera, B. M., 2015, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 112, 16, p. 5087-5092 6 p.

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    3. Published

      DisCoTune: versatile auxiliary plasmids for the production of disulphide-containing proteins and peptides in the E. coli T7 system

      Bertelsen, A. B., Hackney, Celeste Menuet, Bayer, C. N., Kjelgaard, L. D., Rennig, M., Christensen, B., Sørensen, E. S., Safavi, Helena, Wulff, T., Ellgaard, Lars & Nørholm, M. H. H., 2021, In: Microbial Biotechnology. 14, 6, p. 2566-2580 15 p.

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    4. Published

      Curses or Cures: A Review of the Numerous Benefits Versus the Biosecurity Concerns of Conotoxin Research

      Bjørn-Yoshimoto, Walden, Ramiro, Iris Bea L. , Yandell, M., McIntosh, J. M., Olivera, B. M., Ellgaard, Lars & Safavi, Helena, 2020, In: Biomedicines. 8, 8, 22 p., 235.

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    5. Published

      Integrating Venom Peptide Libraries Into a Phylogenetic and Broader Biological Framework

      Chase, K., Watkins, M., Safavi, Helena & Olivera, B. M., 2022, In: Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9, 16 p., 784419.

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    6. Conopeptides promote itch through human itch receptor hMgprX1

      Espino, S. S., Robinson, S. D., Safavi, Helena, Gajewiak, J., Yang, W., Olivera, B. M. & Liu, Q., 2018, In: Toxicon. 154, p. 28-34 7 p.

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    7. Pancreatic beta cells are highly susceptible to oxidative and ER stresses during the development of diabetes

      Gorasia, D. G., Dudek, N. L., Veith, P. D., Shankar, R., Safavi, Helena, Williamson, N. A., Reynolds, E. C., Hubbard, M. J. & Purcell, A. W., 2015, In: Journal of Proteome Research. 14, 2, p. 688-99 12 p.

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    8. A prominent role of PDIA6 in processing of misfolded proinsulin

      Gorasia, D. G., Dudek, N. L., Safavi, Helena, Perez, R. A., Schittenhelm, R. B., Saunders, P. M., Wee, S., Mangum, J. E., Hubbard, M. J. & Purcell, A. W., 2016, In: B B A - Reviews on Cancer. 1864, 6, p. 715-723 9 p.

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    9. Published

      A toxin-based approach to neuropeptide and peptide hormone discovery

      Koch, Thomas Lund, Torres, Joshua, Baskin, R. P., Salcedo, P. F., Chase, K., Olivera, B. M. & Safavi, Helena, 2023, In: Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 16, 14 p., 1176662.

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    10. Published

      Unconventional insulins from predators and pathogens

      Laugesen, Sophie Heiden, Chou, D. H. C. & Safavi, Helena, 2022, In: Nature Chemical Biology. 18, 7, p. 688-697

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    11. Discovery of Novel Conotoxin Candidates Using Machine Learning

      Li, Q., Watkins, M., Robinson, S. D., Safavi, Helena & Yandell, M., 2018, In: Toxins. 10, 12, 503.

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    12. Divergence of the Venom Exogene Repertoire in Two Sister Species of Turriconus

      Li, Q., Barghi, N., Lu, A., Fedosov, A. E., Bandyopadhyay, P. K., Lluisma, A. O., Concepcion, G. P., Yandell, M., Olivera, B. M. & Safavi, Helena, 2017, In: Genome Biology and Evolution. 9, 9, p. 2211-2225 15 p.

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    13. Published

      Transcriptomic Profiling Reveals Extraordinary Diversity of Venom Peptides in Unexplored Predatory Gastropods of the Genus Clavus

      Lu, A., Watkins, M., Li, Q., Robinson, S. D., Concepcion, G. P., Yandell, M., Weng, Z., Olivera, B. M., Safavi, Helena & Fedosov, A. E., 2020, In: Genome Biology and Evolution. 12, 5, p. 684-700 17 p.

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    14. Published

      A minimized human insulin-receptor-binding motif revealed in a Conus geographus venom insulin

      Menting, J. G., Gajewiak, J., MacRaild, C. A., Chou, D. H., Disotuar, M. M., Smith, N. A., Miller, C., Erchegyi, J., Rivier, J. E., Olivera, B. M., Forbes, B. E., Smith, B. J., Norton, R. S., Safavi, Helena & Lawrence, M. C., 2016, In: Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. 23, 10, p. 916-920 5 p.

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    15. Isolation and characterization of Conohyal-P1, a hyaluronidase from the injected venom of Conus purpurascens

      Möller, C., Clark, E., Safavi, Helena, DeCaprio, A. & Marí, F., 2017, In: Journal of Proteomics. 164, p. 73-84 12 p.

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    16. Published

      The three-dimensional structure of an H-superfamily conotoxin reveals a granulin fold arising from a common ICK cysteine framework

      Nielsen, L. D., Foged, M. M., Albert, A., Bertelsen, A. B., Søltoft, C. L., Robinson, S. D., Petersen, S. V., Purcell, A. W., Olivera, B. M., Norton, R. S., Vasskog, T., Safavi, Helena, Teilum, Kaare & Ellgaard, Lars, 2019, In: The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294, 22, p. 8745-8759

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    17. Published

      Ero1-Mediated Reoxidation of Protein Disulfide Isomerase Accelerates the Folding of Cone Snail Toxins

      O'Brien, H., Kanemura, S., Okumura, M., Baskin, R. P., Bandyopadhyay, P. K., Olivera, B. M., Ellgaard, Lars, Inaba, K. & Safavi, Helena, 2018, In: International Journal of Molecular Sciences . 19, 11, 15 p., 3418.

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    18. Published

      Linking neuroethology to the chemical biology of natural products: interactions between cone snails and their fish prey, a case study

      Olivera, B. M., Raghuraman, S., Schmidt, E. W. & Safavi, Helena, Oct 2017, In: Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology. 203, 9, p. 717-735 19 p.

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    19. Venom peptides as pharmacological tools and therapeutics for diabetes

      Robinson, S. D. & Safavi, Helena, 2017, In: Neuropharmacology. 127, p. 79-86 8 p.

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    20. The Venom Repertoire of Conus gloriamaris (Chemnitz, 1777), the Glory of the Sea

      Robinson, S. D., Li, Q., Lu, A., Bandyopadhyay, P. K., Yandell, M., Olivera, B. M. & Safavi, Helena, 2017, In: Marine Drugs. 15, 5, 145.

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    21. Diversity of conotoxin gene superfamilies in the venomous snail, Conus victoriae

      Robinson, S. D., Safavi, Helena, McIntosh, L. D., Purcell, A. W., Norton, R. S. & Papenfuss, A. T., 2014, In: PLoS ONE. 9, 2, e87648.

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    22. Discovery by proteogenomics and characterization of an RF-amide neuropeptide from cone snail venom

      Robinson, S. D., Safavi, Helena, Raghuraman, S., Imperial, J. S., Papenfuss, A. T., Teichert, R. W., Purcell, A. W., Olivera, B. M. & Norton, R. S., 2015, In: Journal of Proteomics. 114, p. 38-47 10 p.

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    23. A Naturally Occurring Peptide with an Elementary Single Disulfide-Directed β-Hairpin Fold

      Robinson, S. D., Chhabra, S., Belgi, A., Chittoor, B., Safavi, Helena, Robinson, A. J., Papenfuss, A. T., Purcell, A. W. & Norton, R. S., 2016, In: Structure. 24, 2, p. 293-299 7 p.

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    24. Published

      Insulin as a weapon

      Robinson, S. D. & Safavi, Helena, 2016, In: Toxicon. 123, p. 56-61 6 p.

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    25. Published

      Hormone-like peptides in the venoms of marine cone snails

      Robinson, S. D., Li, Q., Bandyopadhyay, P. K., Gajewiak, J., Yandell, M., Papenfuss, A. T., Purcell, A. W., Norton, R. S. & Safavi, Helena, 1 Apr 2017, In: General and Comparative Endocrinology. 244, p. 11-18 8 p.

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