Welcome to the United Federation of Planet’s Space Travel Development laboratory! Our minds in Starfleet and the Federation decided to model this ship off a particular conotoxin used by the Earth cone snail species, Conus imperialis, renowned for its toxicity despite its innocuous appearance. The deadliness of the cone snail is due to the cocktail of peptides it contains that target ion channels in the body however we are drawing inspiration from 𝛂-conotoxin ImI specifically which binds to neuromuscular nAChR/Ac-AChBP [1]. As the ship is still in development, we have created a simulation of the conotoxin itself and will be making the connections between how the conotoxin functions in nature with how our starship will function.
Sources: [1] https://doi.org/10.3390/md12052970 [2] https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.201600391 [3] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmb.2021.167035 [4]https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0507889103
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