New "birtoxin analogs" from Androctonus australis venom

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 333, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 524-530

  Martin Eauclaire, Marie France ^a   Ceard, Brigitte ^a   Bosmans, Frank ^b   Rosso, Jean Pierre ^a   Tytgat, Jan ^b   Bougis, Pierre E ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cDNA; Insects; Scorpion toxins; Voltage gated sodium channels

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTITOXIN; BIRTOXIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DISULFIDE; INSECT VENOM; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CHANNEL GATING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA LIBRARY; DROSOPHILA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RAT; SCORPION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; RATS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYNAPTOSOMES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANDROCTONUS AUSTRALIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PARABUTHUS TRANSVAALICUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 20544466940     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.05.148     Document Type: Article

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