Peptide toxins in spider venoms;Les toxines peptidiques dans les venins d'araignees

Annales de l'Institut Pasteur/Actualites

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-251

  Escoubas, Pierre ^a,b   Diochot, Sylvie ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; SPIDER VENOM;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GENE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032715539     PISSN: 09244204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-4204(99)80037-7     Document Type: Article

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