The sea anemone Bunodosoma granulifera contains surprisingly efficacious and potent insect-selective toxins

FEBS Letters

Volumn 532, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 131-134

  Bosmans, Frank ^a   Aneiros, Abel ^b   Tytgat, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Instituto de Oceanologica   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Evolution; Insecticide; Neurotoxin; Sea anemone toxin; Voltage gated sodium channel

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; NEUROTOXIN; SEA ANEMONE TOXIN; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL AFFECTING AGENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA ANEMONE; TOXIN ANALYSIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; INSECTICIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; BUNODOSOMA; BUNODOSOMA GRANULIFERA; CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0037021470     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(02)03653-0     Document Type: Article

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