A novel proteinaceous cytotoxin from the northern Scyphozoa Cyanea capillata (L.) with structural homology to cubozoan haemolysins

Toxicon

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 721-729

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

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanea; Jellyfish; Mass spectrometry; Protein sequencing; Toxin; Venom

Indexed keywords

CARYBDEA ALATA CYTOTOXIN 1; CARYBDEA RASTONII CYTOTOXIN 1; CYANEA CAPILLATA CYTOTOXIN 1; CYTOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBOZOA; CYTOTOXICITY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POISONOUS JELLYFISH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PURIFICATION; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SCYPHOZOA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

CARYBDEA ALATA; CARYBDEA RASTONII; CUBOZOA; CYANEA (CNIDARIA); CYANEA CAPILLATA; SCYPHOZOA;

EID: 79953277450     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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