Molding the business end of neurotoxins by diversifying evolution

FASEB Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 576-586

  Kozminsky Atias, Adi ^a   Zilberberg, Noam ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Active surface; Ion channels; Multigene families

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOXIN; BETA TOXIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; COBROTOXIN; DEPRESSANT TOXIN; HANATOXIN LIKE TOXIN; NEUROTOXIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; DIVERSIFYING SELECTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; POISONOUS ANIMAL; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROTOXINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SCORPION VENOMS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SNAKE VENOMS; SPIDER VENOMS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84856544129     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-187179     Document Type: Article

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