Halcurin, a polypeptide toxin from the sea anemone Halcurias sp., with a structural resemblance to type 1 and 2 toxins

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 537-544

  Ishida, Masami ^a   Yokoyama, Aki ^a   Shimakura, Kuniyoshi ^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 CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CRAB; HEMOLYSIS; HORSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SHEEP; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENDOCOELANTHEAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; HALCURIAS; NYNANTHEAE; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0030888722     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00143-2     Document Type: Article

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