Biochemical, genetic and physiological characterization of venom components from two species of scorpions: Centruroides exilicauda Wood and Centruroides sculpturatus Ewing

Biochimie

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 387-396

  Valdez Cruz, Norma A ^a   Dávila, Sonia ^b   Licea, Alexei ^c   Corona, Miguel ^a   Zamudio, Fernando Z ^a   García Valdes, Jesús ^a   Boyer, Leslie ^d   Possani, Lourival D ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c Marine Biotechnology   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

C; C. exilicauda; C. sculpturatus; Centruroides; COX I; COX II; Cytochrome oxidase; cytochrome oxidase I; cytochrome oxidase II; K + channel; l; limpidus; mDNA; mitochondrial DNA; Mitochondrial gene; Scorpion toxin; T; Tityus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FRACTIONATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SCORPION; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARIZONA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MEXICO; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

CENTRUROIDES; CENTRUROIDES EXILICAUDA; CENTRUROIDES SCULPTURATUS; SCORPIONES; TITYUS;

EID: 3342934708     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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