A novel scorpion toxin blocking small conductance Ca2+ activated K+ channel

Toxicon

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 961-971

  Xu, Chen Qi ^a,b   He, Lin Lin ^c   Brône, Bert ^d   Martin Eauclaire, Marie France ^e   Van Kerkhove, Emmy ^d   Zhou, Zhuan ^c   Chi, Cheng Wu ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Gene cloning; Phylogenetic tree; SK channel

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; DRUG STRUCTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SODIUM CURRENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APAMIN; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CHROMAFFIN CELLS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; GRASSHOPPERS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; RATS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMALL-CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

BUTHUS; MESOBUTHUS MARTENSII; SCORPIONES;

EID: 2942689517     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2004.01.018     Document Type: Article

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