Isolation, amino acid sequence and functional assays of SGTx1. The first toxin purified from the venom of the spider Scodra griseipes

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 572-579

  Marvin, Laure ^a   De, Emmanuelle ^b   Cosette, Pascal ^b   Gagnon, Jean ^c   Molle, Gérard ^b   Lange, Catherine ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Normandie Université   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Planar lipid bilayers; Potassium channel blocker; Spider toxin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; DITHIOTHREITOL; LIPID; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SPIDER VENOM; TOXIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GEL FILTRATION; LIPID BILAYER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RAT; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIDER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; LIPID BILAYERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPIDER VENOMS;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; GRAMMOSTOLA SPATULATA; INVERTEBRATA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STROMATOPELMA GRISEIPES;

EID: 0033570060     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00726.x     Document Type: Article

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