APETx1, a new toxin from the sea anemone Anthopleura elegantissima, blocks voltage-gated human ether-a-go-go-related gene potassium channels

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-69

  Diochot, Sylvie ^a   Loret, Erwann ^b   Bruhn, Thomas ^c   Béress, Laszlo ^c   Lazdunski, Michel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b CNRS and Aix Marseille University   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; PROTEIN APETX1; PROTEIN BDS 1; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHANNEL GATING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CROSS LINKING; DISULFIDE BOND; DRUG PURIFICATION; GENE; HUMAN ETHER A GO GO RELATED GENE; IC 50; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA ANEMONE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0037899621     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.64.1.59     Document Type: Article

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