Sodium channel modifiers from scorpion venom: Structure-activity relationship, mode of action and application

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1671-1682

  Gurevitz, Michael ^a   Froy, Oren ^a   Zilberberg, Noam ^a   Turkov, Michael ^a   Strugatsky, David ^a   Gershburg, Eduard ^a,i   Lee, Daewoo ^b   Adams, Michael E ^b   Tugarinov, Vitali ^c   Anglister, Jacob ^c   Shaanan, Boaz ^d   Loret, Erwann ^e   Stankiewicz, Maria ^f   Pelhate, Marcel ^g   Gordon, Dalia ^h   Chejanovsky, Nor ⁱ  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f Inst Biol Protect Environ N C   (Poland)

^g Universite d'Angers   (France)

^h DIF   (France)

ⁱ VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; NEUROTOXIN; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISULFIDE BOND; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DRUG SYNERGISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FORECASTING; INSECTICIDES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEUROTOXINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SCORPION VENOMS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SPODOPTERA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0031740603     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00160-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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