A novel family of insect-selective peptide neurotoxins targeting insect large-conductance calcium-activated K+ channels isolated from the venom of the theraphosid spider Eucratoscelus constrictus

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Windley, Monique J ^a   Escoubas, Pierre ^b,c   Valenzuela, Stella M ^a   Nicholson, Graham M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c VenomeTech   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; KAPPA TRTX EC2A TOXIN; KAPPA TRTX EC2B TOXIN; KAPPA TRTX EC2C TOXIN; LARGE CONDUCTANCE CALCIUM ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; NEUROTOXIN; SPIDER VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUCRATOSCELUS CONSTRICTUS; FEMALE; IC 50; INSECT; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COCKROACHES; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROTOXINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, CALCIUM-ACTIVATED; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS;

EID: 79959301228     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: 15210111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.110.070540     Document Type: Article

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