The major toxin from the Australian Common Brown Snake is a hexamer with unusual gas-phase dissociation properties

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 478-485

  Aquilina, J Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asymmetric dissociation; Electrospray; Mass spectrometry; Phospholipase; Protein

Indexed keywords

SNAKE VENOM; TEXTILOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; GLYCOSYLATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOICHIOMETRY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SNAKE;

STORERIA DEKAYI;

ANIMALS; ELAPID VENOMS; ELAPIDAE; GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 66149150192     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22259     Document Type: Article

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