A new family of small (4kDa) neurotoxins from the venoms of spiders of the genus Phoneutria

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 700-708

  Lucioa A D ^a,d   Campos, F V ^a,e   Richardson, M ^b   Cordeiro, M N ^b   Mazzoni, M S C ^a   De Lima, M E ^a   Pimenta, A M C ^a   Bemquerer, M P ^a,f   Figueiredo, S G ^c   Gomes, P C ^b   Beirao P S L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FUNDAÇÃO EZEQUIEL DIAS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ESPÍRITO SANTO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequences; L type Ca 2+ channels; Molecular modeling; Neurotoxin; Phoneutria; Spider toxin

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; PHONEUTRIA;

EID: 49449088983     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986608785133708     Document Type: Article

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