A polypeptide toxin in the sea anemone Actinia equina homologous with other sea anemone sodium channel toxins: Isolation and amino acid sequence

Toxicon

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-65

  Lin, Xin Yu ^a   Ishida, Masami ^a   Nagashima, Yuji ^a   Shiomi, Kazuo ^a  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE; SEA ANEMONE TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA ANEMONE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ACTINIA EQUINA; ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0030033799     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0041-0101(95)00121-2     Document Type: Article

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