Novel structural class of four disulfide-bridged peptides from Tityus serrulatus venom

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 301, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1086-1092

  Pimenta, Adriano M C ^a,b   Legros, Christian ^a,c   De Marco Almeida, Flávia ^a,b   Mansuelle, Pascal ^a   De Lima, Maria Elena ^b   Bougis, Pierre E ^a   Martin Eauclaire, Marie France ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D EVRY VAL D ESSONNE   (France)

Author keywords

Bioactive peptides; Four disulfide bridged peptides; Scorpion venom; Tityus serrulatus

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN TSPEP1; PROTEIN TSPEP2; PROTEIN TSPEP3; TITYUS TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANDROCTONUS; ANDROCTONUS AUSTRALIS; SCORPIONES; TITYUS; TITYUS SERRULATUS;

EID: 0037459062     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(03)00082-2     Document Type: Article

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