On the quaternary structure of taipoxin and textilotoxin: The advantage of being multiple

Toxicon

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1560-1562

  Montecucco, Cesare ^a   Rossetto, Ornella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA BUNGAROTOXIN; CALCIUM; CANNITOXIN; CROTOXIN; FATTY ACID DERIVATIVE; HYDROLASE; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPID RECEPTOR; NEUROTOXIN; NOTEXIN; OLIGOMER; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PHOSPHOLIPID; PHOSPHOLIPID DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SNAKE VENOM; TAIPOXIN; TEXTILOTOXIN;

BINDING AFFINITY; CYTOTOXICITY; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; LETTER; MOTONEURON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKE; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ELAPID VENOMS; ELAPIDAE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; MUTATION; NEUROTOXINS; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

EID: 44649107619     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.03.020     Document Type: Letter

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