Anti-insect toxin 5 (AaIT5) from Androctonus australis

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 246, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 496-501

  Nakagawa, Yoshiaki ^a,b   Lee, Young Moo ^a   Lehmberg, Elisabeth ^a,c   Herrmann, Rafael ^a,d   Herrmann, Revital ^a   Moskowitz, Haim ^a   Daniel Jones, A ^a   Hammock, Bruce D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BAYER AG   (Germany)

^d DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Androctonus australis; Anti insect toxin; Neurotoxin; Scorpion toxin

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG TOXICITY; INSECT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030910076     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.t01-1-00496.x     Document Type: Article

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