1H NMR study of robustoxin, the lethal neurotoxin from the funnel web spider Atrax robustus

Toxicon

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 485-506

  Temple, Mark D ^a   Hinds, Mark G ^b   Sheumack, David D ^c   Howden, Merlin E H ^c   Norton, Raymond S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conformational averaging; Funnel web spider; Ionisation behaviour; Neurotoxic polypeptide; NMR spectroscopy; Resonance assignments

Indexed keywords

INSECT VENOM; NEUROTOXIN; ROBUSTOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HYDROGEN; PEPTIDE; ROBUSTOXIN; SPIDER VENOM;

DRUG STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIDER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PH; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS;

EID: 0032588021     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00186-X     Document Type: Article

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