Purification, characterization of two peptides from Buthus martensi Karch

Journal of Peptide Research

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 252-259

  Cao, Z Y ^a   Shen, W Q ^b   Pan, Y P ^a   Xiao, X ^a   Liu, X M ^a   Wang, X L ^a   Liang, X T ^a   Yu, D Q ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Buthus martensi Karch; Electrophysiology; Martentoxin; Martentoxin I

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MARTENTOXIN DERIVATIVE; MARTENTOXIN I; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; BUTHUS MARTENSI; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORPION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SODIUM CURRENT; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDES; POTASSIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SODIUM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMALIA; BUTHUS; MESOBUTHUS MARTENSII; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0346123196     PISSN: 1397002X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1399-3011.2003.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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