Purification and characterization of a short insect toxin from the venom of the scorpion Buthus tamulus

FEBS Letters

Volumn 528, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 261-266

  Dhawan, Ritu ^a   Joseph, Suresh ^a   Sethi, Anurag ^a   Lala, Anil K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Buthus tamulus; Helicoverpa armigera; Homology; Insectotoxin; Scorpion; Toxin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHLORIDE ION; DISULFIDE; INSECT VENOM; PEPTIDE; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FLACCID PARALYSIS; INDIA; INSECT; ION EXCHANGE; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SCORPION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TIME; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; LEPIDOPTERA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

BUTHUS; HELICOVERPA; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MESOBUTHUS TAMULUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0037174160     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(02)03326-4     Document Type: Article

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