Isolation and characterisation of conomap-Vt, a d-amino acid containing excitatory peptide from the venom of a vermivorous cone snail

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 3860-3866

  Dutertre, Sébastien ^a   Lumsden, Natalie G ^a   Alewood, Paul F ^a   Lewis, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cone snail; Conotoxin; Molusc selective bioactive; Post translational modification; Venom peptide

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CONOMAP VT; CONOTOXIN; DEXTRO AMINO ACID; DEXTRO PHENYLALANINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PHENYLALANINE; TETRADECAPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESENSITIZATION; INSECT; ISOMERIZATION; MALE; MOLLUSC; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAIL; TACHYPHYLAXIS; TOXIN ANALYSIS; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHENYLALANINE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; TACHYPHYLAXIS; TRYPSIN;

ANNELIDA; CONUS VITULINUS; GASTROPODA; HEXAPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 33745347364     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.06.011     Document Type: Article

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