Solution structures of a highly insecticidal recombinant scorpion α- toxin and a mutant with increased activity

Biochemistry

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 2414-2424

  Tugarinov, Vitali ^a   Kustanovich, Irina ^a,c   Zilberberg, Noam ^b   Gurevitz, Michael ^b   Anglister, Jacob ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCORPION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARGININE; HISTIDINE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEUROTOXINS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SCORPION VENOMS; SOLUTIONS;

ANDROCTONUS; ANDROCTONUS AUSTRALIS HECTOR; LEIURUS; LEIURUS QUINQUESTRIATUS HEBRAEUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0031017788     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi961497l     Document Type: Article

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