Purification and sequence determination of a new neutral mammalian neurotoxin from the scorpion Buthus martensii Karsch

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 723-731

  Luo, Ming Juan ^a   Xiong, Yu Mei ^b   Wang, Miao ^b   Wang, Da Cheng ^b   Chi, Cheng Wu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG TOXICITY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SCORPION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS;

EID: 0030920626     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00146-8     Document Type: Article

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