Solution structure of an insect-specific neurotoxin from the new world scorpion Centruroides sculpturatus Ewing

Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 28, 2001, Pages 8273-8282

  Jablonsky, M J ^a   Jackson, P L ^a,b   Krishna, N R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL SURFACES;

ANNEALING; BIOCHEMISTRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

PROTEINS;

NEUROTOXIN; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CENTRUROIDES SCULPTURATUS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SCORPION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTATICS; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLUTIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CENTRUROIDES SCULPTURATUS; INSECTA; MAMMALIA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0035902563     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi010223h     Document Type: Article

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