Isolation and characterization of CvIV4: A pain inducing α- scorpion toxin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Rowe, Ashlee H ^a   Xiao, Yucheng ^b   Scales, Joseph ^a   Linse, Klaus D ^a,d   Rowe, Matthew P ^c   Cummins, Theodore R ^b   Zakon, Harold H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Sam Houston State University   (United States)

^d XBiotech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN CVIV4; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID; CENTRUROIDES TOXIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CENTRUROIDES EXILICAUDA; CENTRUROIDES VITTATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAIN; PAW LICKING ASSAY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORPION; SODIUM CURRENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VAEJOVIS SPINIGERUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FRACTIONATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BUTHIDA; BUTHIDAE; CENTRUROIDES VITTATUS; MUS MUSCULUS; SCORPIONES; VAEJOVIDAE; VAEJOVIS SPINIGERUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIN; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 80051985948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023520     Document Type: Article

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