Primary structure of γ-bungarotoxin, a new postsynaptic neurotoxin from venom of Bungarus multicinctus

Toxicon

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 609-625

  Aird, Steven D ^a   Womble, Glen C ^b   Yates III, John R ^c   Griffin, Patrick R ^c  

^a NPS Pharmaceutical Inc   (United States)

^b 533 Majorca Court ^*  (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disulfide bond positions; Hydrophobicity; Postsynaptic neurotoxin; Primary structure; Snake venom; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN; NEUROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DISULFIDE BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; LD 50; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SNAKE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BUNGAROTOXINS; BUNGARUS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; SOLUBILITY;

ANIMALIA; BUNGARUS MULTICINCTUS; ELAPIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; SERPENTES;

EID: 0032971155     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00199-8     Document Type: Article

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