The Janus-faced atracotoxins are specific blockers of invertebrate K Ca channels

FEBS Journal

Volumn 275, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4045-4059

  Gunning, Simon J ^a   Maggio, Francesco ^b,d   Windley, Monique J ^a   Valenzuela, Stella M ^a   King, Glenn F ^c   Nicholson, Graham M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaine scan mutants; Bioinsecticide; BKCa channel; Cockroach neurons; Kappa atracotoxin

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM CHANNEL; JANUS FACED ATRACOTOXIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; SODIUM CHANNEL; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; COCKROACH; ELECTRIC CURRENT; IC 50; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL GANGLION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERIPLANETA; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPIDER VENOMS;

BLATTARIA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; RATTUS;

EID: 48249135562     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06545.x     Document Type: Article

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