Purification and characterization of huwentoxin-II, a neurotoxic peptide from the venom of the Chinese bird spider Selenocosmia huwena

Journal of Peptide Research

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 486-491

  Shu, Q ^a   Liang, Song Ping ^a  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Huwentoxin II; Neurotoxin; Selenocosmia huwena; Spider venom

Indexed keywords

HUWENTOXIN; NEUROTOXIN; SPIDER VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DIAPHRAGM MUSCLE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPIDER; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; COCKROACHES; DRUG SYNERGISM; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROTOXINS; PARALYSIS; PHRENIC NERVE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPIDER VENOMS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033040926     PISSN: 1397002X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3011.1999.00039.x     Document Type: Article

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