Latrophilin is required for toxicity of black widow spider venom in Caenorhabditis elegans

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 378, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 185-191

  Mee, Christopher J ^a   Tomlinson, Simon R ^a,b   Perestenko, Pavel V ^a,c   De Pomerai, David ^a   Duce, Ian R ^a   Usherwood, Peter N R ^a   Bell, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Black widow spider; Caenorhabditis elegans; Latrophilin; Latrophilin CIRL (calcium independent receptor for latrotoxin); Latrotoxin; Neurotransmission

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; GENES; RNA; TOXICITY;

MOLECULAR MASS; MUTANTS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

CALCIUM; CALCIUM INDEPENDENT RECEPTOR FOR LATROPHILIN; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 37 A1; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; LATROPHILIN; NEUREXIN; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; RNA; SPIDER VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIDER; TOXICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, PEPTIDE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPIDER VENOMS;

ARANEAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; LATRODECTUS TREDECIMGUTTATUS; NEMATODA;

EID: 1542314825     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20031213     Document Type: Article

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