Chemical and Functional Identification and Characterization of Novel Sulfated α-Conotoxins from the Cone Snail Conus anemone

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1234-1241

  Loughnan, Marion L ^a   Nicke, Annette ^a,b   Jones, Alun ^a   Adams, David J ^a   Alewood, Paul F ^a   Lewis, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CONOTOXIN DERIVATIVE; CONOTOXIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMIDATION; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DRUG POTENCY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SNAIL; SULFATION;

ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CONOTOXINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLLUSK VENOMS; NEURONS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SNAILS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; XENOPUS;

EID: 1242273820     PISSN: 00222623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jm031010o     Document Type: Article

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