Oxidative folding of conotoxins sharing an identical disulfide bridging framework

FEBS Journal

Volumn 272, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1727-1738

  Fuller, Erika ^a   Green, Brad R ^a   Catlin, Phil ^a   Buczek, Olga ^b   Nielsen, Jacob S ^a   Olivera, Baldomero M ^b   Bulaj, Grzegorz ^a,b  

^a Cognetix Inc ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conotoxin; Disulfide bonds; Oxidative folding

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; OMEGA CONOTOXIN GVIA; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIA; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIC; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIID; OMEGA CONOTOXIN SVIA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DISULFIDE BOND; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CONOTOXINS; CYSTINE; MOLLUSCA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 17144410377     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04602.x     Document Type: Article

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