Novel conopeptides in a form of disulfide-crosslinked dimer

Peptides

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1001-1006

  Wu, Xue Chen ^a   Zhou, Mi ^a   Peng, Can ^a   Shao, Xiao Xia ^a   Guo, Zhan Yun ^a   Chi, Cheng Wu ^a,b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Conopeptide; Dimer; Disulfide; M superfamily

Indexed keywords

CONOPEPTIDE VT3.1; CONOPEPTIDE VT3.2; CYSTEINE; DIMER; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONUS SNAIL; DISULFIDE BOND; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; DISULFIDES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

GASTROPODA; MUS;

EID: 77952104633     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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