Isolation and structure of pompilidotoxins, novel peptide neurotoxins in solitary wasp venoms

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 612-616

  Konno, Katsuhiro ^a   Hisada, Miki ^b   Itagaki, Yasuhiro ^b   Naoki, Hideo ^b   Kawai, Nobufumi ^c   Miwa, Akiko ^d   Yasuhara, Tadashi ^e   Takayama, Hiroaki ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SUNTORY INSTITUTE FOR BIOORGANIC RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; LYSINE; NEUROTOXIN; POMPILIDOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WASP VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LEG MUSCLE; LOBSTER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; ANOPLIUS; INVERTEBRATA; MEGASCOLIA FLAVIFRONS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0032578586     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1998.9299     Document Type: Article

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