Purification and characterization of a novel short-chain insecticidal toxin with two disulfide bridges from the venom of the scorpion Liocheles australasiae

Toxicon

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 861-867

  Matsushita, Nobuto ^a   Miyashita, Masahiro ^a   Sakai, Atsushi ^a   Nakagawa, Yoshiaki ^a   Miyagawa, Hisashi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disulfide bridge; Insecticidal peptide; Neurotoxin; Scorpion venom; Short chain toxin

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; INSECT; LIOCHELES AUSTRALASIAE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORPION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DISULFIDES; GRYLLIDAE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INSECTICIDES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BUTHIDAE; CRUSTACEA; GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA; LIOCHELES; MAMMALIA; MUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 34548817288     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2007.06.014     Document Type: Article

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