Solution structure of a short-chain insecticidal toxin LaIT1 from the venom of scorpion Liocheles australasiae

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 411, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 738-744

  Horita, Shoichiro ^a   Matsushita, Nobuto ^b   Kawachi, Tomoyuki ^b   Ayabe, Reed ^b   Miyashita, Masahiro ^b   Miyakawa, Takuya ^a   Nakagawa, Yoshiaki ^b   Nagata, Koji ^a   Miyagawa, Hisashi ^b   Tanokura, Masaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inhibitory cystine knot fold; LaIT1; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Scorpion toxin; Solution structure

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYSTINE; DISULFIDE; HYDROGEN; INHIBITORY CYSTINE KNOT PROTEIN; INSECT VENOM; INSECT VENOM LAIT1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; DRUG STRUCTURE; HETERONUCLEAR NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; HYDROGEN BOND; INHIBITION KINETICS; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LIOCHELES AUSTRALASIAE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SCORPION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; INSECTICIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS;

LIOCHELES; SCORPIONES;

EID: 80051566737     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.07.016     Document Type: Article

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