Huwentoxin-V, a novel insecticidal peptide toxin from the spider Selenocosmia huwena, and a natural mutant of the toxin: Indicates the key amino acid residues related to the biological activity

Toxicon

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-20

  Zhang, Peng Fei ^a   Chen, Ping ^a   Hu, Wei Jun ^a   Liang, Song Ping ^a  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Huwentoxin V; Insecticidal toxin; Key amino acid residues; The mutant of Huwentoxin V

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; DITHIOTHREITOL; HANATOXIN; HUWENTOXIN V; NEUROTOXIN; PHENYLALANINE; SERINE; SPIDER VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HUWENTOXIN V, SELENOCOSMIA HUWENA; HUWENTOXIN-V, SELENOCOSMIA HUWENA;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LOCUST; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFICATION; SELENOCOSMIA HUWENA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPIDER; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TIME; TOXIN STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GRASSHOPPER; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ARANEAE; AVES; BLATTARIA; ORNITHOCTONUS HUWENA; ORTHOPTERA; THERAPHOSIDAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; COCKROACHES; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROTOXINS; PARALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0141767105     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(03)00095-3     Document Type: Article

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