A novel short-chain peptide BmKX from the chinese scorpion Buthus martensi karsch, sequencing, gene cloning and structure determination

Toxicon

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 309-319

  Wang, Chun Guang ^a   Cai, Zheng ^b   Lu, Wuyuan ^c   Wu, Jihui ^b   Xu, Yingqi ^b   Shi, Yunyu ^b   Chi, Cheng Wu ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cysteine framework; Gene structure; NMR; Scorpion toxin; Solution structure

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; PEPTIDE; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SCORPION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 15944369584     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2004.11.014     Document Type: Article

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