Structural studies of conotoxins

IUBMB Life

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 144-150

  Daly, Norelle L ^a   Craik, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conus; Cystine knot; Disulfide isomers; NMR; Toxins

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; DISULFIDE; ION CHANNEL; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LIPID OXIDATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CONUS SNAIL; DRUG STABILITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUBILITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

GASTROPODA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DISULFIDES; DRUG STABILITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 63449129387     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: 15216551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/iub.158     Document Type: Review

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