Two novel O-superfamily conotoxins from Conus vexillum

Toxicon

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 425-436

  Jiang, Hui ^a,b,c   Xu, Chen Qi ^a,b   Wang, Cheng Zhong ^a   Fan, Chong Xu ^c   Zhao, Ting You ^c   Chen, Ji Sheng ^c   Chi, Cheng Wu ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Beijing Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry   (China)

Author keywords

Bioassay; cDNA cloning; Cone snails; Conus vexillum; O superfamily conotoxin

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; CONOTOXIN VX6A; CONOTOXIN VX6B; ION CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, ORGANISM; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ION CHANNELS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; CONUS VEXILLUM; GASTROPODA;

EID: 33644835885     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.12.007     Document Type: Article

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