Biochemical and molecular characterization of the venom from the Cuban scorpion Rhopalurus junceus

Toxicon

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-27

  Garcia Gomez B I ^a   Coronas, F I V ^a   Restano Cassulini, R ^a   Rodriguez R R ^b   Possani, L D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b Ministerio de Ciencia   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Cuba; Gene cloning; Ion channel; Rhopalurus junceus; Scorpion toxin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HYALURONIDASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBA; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO; GENE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LETHALITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATCH CLAMP; PHYLOGENY; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RHOPALURUS JUNCEUS; RJA12F GENE; SCORPION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SODIUM CURRENT; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; GRYLLIDAE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; RATS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA; MUS; RHOPALURUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 79959376522     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.04.011     Document Type: Article

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