Activities of cobra venom cytotoxins toward heart and leukemic T-cells depend on localized amino acid differences

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 659-669

  Stevens Truss, Regina ^a,b   Hinman, Channing L ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBROTOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DRUG BINDING; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG TOXICITY; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CELLS, CULTURED; COBRA; COBRA VENOMS; CYTOTOXINS; DIRECT LYTIC FACTORS; HEART; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0030920804     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00188-2     Document Type: Article

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