An overview of toxins and genes from the venom of the Asian scorpion Buthus martensi Karsch

Toxicon

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1239-1258

  Goudet, Cyril ^a   Chi, Cheng Wu ^b   Tytgat, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Buthus martensi Karsch; Scorpion; Toxin; Venom

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; BM 12B TOXIN; BM KK2 TOXIN; BM KK3 TOXIN; BM KK4 TOXIN; BM TXKS3 TOXIN; BM TXKS4 TOXIN; BMK 32 IV TOXIN; BMK AEP TOXIN; BMK ANGP1 TOXIN; BMK AP1 TOXIN; BMK AS TOXIN; BMK AS1 TOXIN; BMK I TOXIN; BMK IT AP TOXIN; BMK IT1 TOXIN; BMK IT2 TOXIN; BMK IT3 TOXIN; BMK IT4 TOXIN; BMK IT5 TOXIN; BMSKTX2 TOXIN; BMTXK BETA2 TOXIN; BUKATOXIN; CHLOROTOXIN; DISULFIDE; INSECT VENOM; MAKATOXIN I; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; RYANODINE RECEPTOR; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCORPION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NEUROTOXINS; PEPTIDES; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS;

BUTHUS; INSECTA; MESOBUTHUS MARTENSII; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0036709305     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(02)00142-3     Document Type: Review

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