Mechanosensitive ion channels and the peptide inhibitor GsMTx-4: History, properties, mechanisms and pharmacology

Toxicon

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-270

  Bowman, Charles L ^a   Gottlieb, Philip A ^a   Suchyna, Thomas M ^a   Murphy, Yolanda K ^a   Sachs, Frederick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL; PROTEIN GSMTX 4; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; SPIDER VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATION TRANSPORT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ENERGY TRANSFER; EUKARYOTE; GRAMMOSTOLA SPATULATA; INHIBITION KINETICS; ION TRANSPORT; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; SPIDER VENOMS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EUKARYOTA; GRAMMOSTOLA SPATULATA; TARANTULA;

EID: 33846426807     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.09.030     Document Type: Article

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