Combinatorial Interaction of Scorpion Toxins Lqh-2, Lqh-3, and LqhαIT with Sodium Channel Receptor Sites-3

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 685-691

  Leipold, Enrico ^a   Lu, Songqing ^a   Gordon, Dalia ^b   Hansel, Alfred ^a   Heinemann, Stefan H ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; SCORPION VENOM; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; SCORPION VENOMS; SODIUM CHANNELS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 1342287128     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.65.3.685     Document Type: Article

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