Isolation and molecular cloning of beta-neurotoxins from the venom of the scorpion Centruroides suffusus suffusus

Toxicon

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 739-746

  Espino Solis, Gerardo Pavel ^a   Estrada, Georgina ^a   Olamendi Portugal, Timoteo ^a   Villegas, Elba ^b   Zamudio, Fernando ^a   Cestele, Sandrine ^c   Possani, Lourival D ^a   Corzo, Gerardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Beta toxin; CDNA; Centruroides suffusus suffusus; Scorpion; Sodium channel

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CENTRUROIDES SUFFUSUS SUFFUSUS II TOXIN; CENTRUROIDES SUFFUSUS SUFFUSUS IV TOXIN; CENTRUROIDES SUFFUSUS SUFFUSUS IX TOXIN; CENTRUROIDES SUFFUSUS SUFFUSUS VI TOXIN; CENTRUROIDES SUFFUSUS SUFFUSUS VIII TOXIN; NEUROTOXIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.2; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; IC 50; LETHALITY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NOMENCLATURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POISONOUS SCORPION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RAT; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; GENE LIBRARY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPIDER VENOMS; SYNAPTOSOMES;

CENTRUROIDES SUFFUSUS SUFFUSUS; MUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 79953266900     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.02.006     Document Type: Article

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