Isolation, synthesis and pharmacological characterization of δ-palutoxins IT, novel insecticidal toxins from the spider Paracoelotes luctuosus (Amaurobiidae)

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 5783-5795

  Corzo, Gerardo ^a,b,c,d   Escoubas, Pierre ^a,b,c,d   Stankiewicz, Maria ^a,b,c,d   Pelhate, Marcel ^a,b,c,d   Kristensen, Charles P ^a,b,c,d   Nakajima, Terumi ^a,b,c,d  

^a SUNTORY INSTITUTE FOR BIOORGANIC RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d American Cyanamid Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Baculovirus; Insecticidal toxins; Scorpion toxins; Sodium channel; Spider toxins

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; AMINO ACID; DISULFIDE; OMEGA PALUTOXIN IT1; OMEGA PALUTOXIN IT2; OMEGA PALUTOXIN IT3; OMEGA PALUTOXIN IT4; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL; SPIDER VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARACOELOTES LUCTUOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIDER; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COCKROACHES; DISULFIDES; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; KINETICS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SCORPION VENOMS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS; SPODOPTERA;

AMAUROBIIDAE; ARACHNIDA; ARANEAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; PARACOELOTES LUCTUOSUS; SCORPIONES; SPODOPTERA LITURA; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0033833498     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01653.x     Document Type: Article

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