Structure and stability of the neurotoxin PV2 from the eggs of the apple snail Pomacea canaliculata

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1804, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1492-1499

  Frassa, María Victoria ^a   Ceolín, Marcelo ^a   Dreon, Marcos S ^b   Heras, Horacio ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOQUÍMICAS DE LA PLATA INIBIOLP   (Argentina)

^c FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

3D structure; Mollusc; Neurotoxin; Perivitellin; Protein stability; Quaternary protein structure; Snail

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN; PERIVITELLIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POMACEA CANALICULATA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SNAIL; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DISULFIDES; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; MOLLUSCA; MOLLUSK VENOMS; NEUROTOXINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SNAILS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRYPTOPHAN; X-RAYS;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; MOLLUSCA; POMACEA CANALICULATA;

EID: 77952321300     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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