Three new toxins from the scorpion Pandinus imperator selectively block certain voltage-gated K+ channels

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1167-1177

  Rogowski, Robert S ^b   Collins, John H ^b,c   O'Neill, Thomas J ^b   Gustafson, Thomas A ^b   Werkman, Taco R ^a,d   Rogawski, Michael A ^d   Tenenholz, Todd C ^b   Weber, David J ^b   Blaustein, Mordecai P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RUBIDIUM; RUBIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SCORPION VENOMS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SYNAPTOSOMES;

EID: 0029807962     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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