Characterisation of neurotoxic polypeptides from Cyanea capillata medusae (Scyphozoa)

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 645, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 213-221

  Lassen, Stephan ^a   Helmholz, Heike ^a   Ruhnau, Christiane ^a   Prange, Andreas ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Jellyfish; Mass spectrometry; Toxin; Venom; Voltage gated sodium channel

Indexed keywords

CELL ASSAYS; CHARACTERISATION; CRUDE VENOMS; EXCITABLE CELLS; ION CHANNEL; IONISATION; MALDI TOF MS; MASS SPECTRA; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION; MEDUSAE; NEUROBLASTOMAS; NEUROTOXIC PEPTIDES; PURIFICATION PROCESS; RECEPTOR SITES; REVERSED-PHASE CHROMATOGRAPHY; SODIUM CHANNEL; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; VOLTAGE GATED ION CHANNELS;

DESORPTION; MASS SPECTROMETERS; PEPTIDES; PURIFICATION; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; TOXIC MATERIALS;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ION EXCHANGE; IONIZATION; JELLYFISH; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDE; TOXIN; VENOM;

COELENTERATA; CYANEA CAPILLATA; HYDROIDA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 77952010465     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0215-x     Document Type: Article

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