SCORPION2: A database for structure-function analysis of scorpion toxins

Toxicon

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 356-363

  Tan, Paul T J ^a,b   Veeramani, Anitha ^a   Srinivasan, Kellathur N ^c,d   Ranganathan, Shoba ^a,e   Brusic, Vladimir ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Johns Hopkins Singapore   (Singapore)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Database; Mutation; Scorpion toxin; Structure function relationship

Indexed keywords

SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DATA BASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORPION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INTERNET; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

SCORPIONES;

EID: 33644543078     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.12.001     Document Type: Article

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