Positively selected sites of scorpion depressant toxins: Possible roles in toxin functional divergence

Toxicon

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 555-562

  Tian, Caihuan ^a   Yuan, Yuzhe ^a   Zhu, Shunyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Toxin channel interactions; Venom neurotoxin

Indexed keywords

LQHIT2 TOXIN; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 40249086896     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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