Interactions between α-conotoxin MI and the Torpedo marmorata receptor α-δ interface

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 355, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 275-279

  Cortez, Leonardo ^a   Marino Buslje, Cristina ^a   de Jiménez Bonino, Mirtha Biscoglio ^a   Hellman, Ulf ^b  

^a Instituto de Quimica y Fisicoquimica Biologicas Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conotoxin MI; Conus; Ligand binding sites; Nicotinic receptors; Torpedo marmorata

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA CONOTOXIN MI; CONOTOXIN; CONOTOXIN RECEPTOR ALPHA; CONOTOXIN RECEPTOR DELTA; LIGAND; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; FISH; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TORPEDO CALIFORNICA; TORPEDO MARMORATA;

AFFINITY LABELS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CONOTOXINS; LIGANDS; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; TORPEDO;

TORPEDO CALIFORNICA; TORPEDO MARMORATA;

EID: 33847037041     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.01.154     Document Type: Article

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