Solution structure of robustoxin, the lethal neurotoxin from the funnel-web spider Atrax robustus

FEBS Letters

Volumn 419, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 191-196

  Pallaghy, Paul K ^a   Alewood, Dianne ^b   Alewood, Paul F ^b   Norton, Raymond S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beta sheet; Cystine knot; Funnel web spider; Neurotoxic polypeptide (robustoxin); Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Structure

Indexed keywords

CYSTINE; NEUROTOXIN; POLYPEPTIDE; ROBUSTOXIN; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPIDER; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROTOXINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS;

EID: 0031451746     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(97)01452-X     Document Type: Article

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