Structural characterization of a new acylpolyaminetoxin from the venom of Brazilian garden spider nephilengys cruentata

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 485-493

  Palma, Mario Sergio ^a   Itagaki, Yasuhiro ^b   Fujita, Tsuyoshi ^b   Naoki, Hideo ^b   Nakajima, Terumi ^b  

^a Institute of Biosciences   (Brazil)

^b SUNTORY INSTITUTE FOR BIOORGANIC RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYAMINE DERIVATIVE; SPIDER VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYAMINES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, FAST ATOM BOMBARDMENT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPIDER VENOMS;

ARANEAE; INVERTEBRATA; NEPHILA; NEPHILENGYS; NEPHILENGYS CRUENTATA;

EID: 0032559937     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(97)00139-6     Document Type: Article

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