Heteropodatoxins: Peptides isolated from spider venom that block Kv4.2 potassium channels

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 491-498

  Sanguinetti, Michael C ^a,c   Johnson, Janice H ^a   Hammerland, Lance G ^a   Kelbaugh, Paul R ^b   Volkmann, Robert A ^b   Saccomano, Nicholas A ^b   Mueller, Alan L ^a  

^a NPS Pharmaceutical Inc   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; POTASSIUM ION; SPIDER VENOM;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIDER; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HEART VENTRICLES; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030894428     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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