Tarantulas: Eight-legged pharmacists and combinatorial chemists

Toxicon

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 555-574

  Escoubas, Pierre ^a   Rash, Lachlan ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Inhibitory cystine knot; Ion channels; Peptide toxins; Tarantula; Theraphosid; Three dimensional structure; Venom

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; SPIDER VENOM;

COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; FRACTIONATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PURIFICATION; REVIEW; SPIDER; SPIDER BITE; TAXONOMY;

THERAPHOSIDAE;

EID: 1942438962     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2004.02.007     Document Type: Article

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