Species diversity and peptide toxins blocking selectivity of ether-à-go-go-related gene subfamily K+ channels in the central nervous system

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1673-1683

  Restano Cassulini, Rita ^a   Korolkova, Yuliya V ^b   Diochot, Sylvie ^c   Gurrola, Georgina ^d   Guasti, Leonardo ^e   Possani, Lourival D ^d   Lazdunski, Michel ^c   Grishin, Eugene V ^b   Arcangeli, Annarosa ^e   Wanke, Enzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APETX1 TOXIN; BEKM 1 TOXIN; ERGTX1 TOXIN; ISOPROTEIN; NOXIUSTOXIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG1; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG2; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG3; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; SCORPION VENOM; SEA ANEMONE TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; BIOPHYSICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG SELECTIVITY; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MURIDAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCORPION; SEA ANEMONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHO CELLS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33645814862     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: 15210111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.105.019729     Document Type: Article

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