Hemitoxin, the first potassium channel toxin from the venom of the Iranian scorpion Hemiscorpius lepturus

FEBS Journal

Volumn 275, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 4641-4650

  Srairi Abid, Najet ^a   Shahbazzadeh, Delavar ^a,b   Chatti, Imen ^a   Mlayah Bellalouna, Saoussen ^a   Mejdoub, Hafedh ^c   Borchani, Lamia ^a   Benkhalifa, Rym ^a   Akbari, Abolfazl ^d   El Ayeb, Mohamed ^a  

^a PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^c University of Sfax   (Tunisia)

^d RAZI VACCINE AND SERUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hemiscorpius lepturus; Hemitoxin; K+ channel; Scorpion toxin; Structure function relationships

Indexed keywords

HEMITOXIN; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IC 50; IRAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORPION; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DISULFIDES; ELAPID VENOMS; IRAN; MALE; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; RATS; SCORPION VENOMS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

LEPTURUS; RATTUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 50849099496     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06607.x     Document Type: Article

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