Interacting sites of scorpion toxin ErgTx1 with hERG1 K + channels

Toxicon

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 633-641

  Jimenez Vargas, J M ^a   Restano Cassulini, R ^a   Possani, L D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

3D modeling; Alanine scanning; Erg channel; Heterologous expression; K + channel; Scorpion toxin

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ENTEROPEPTIDASE; METHIONINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL HERG; SCORPION VENOM; THIOREDOXIN; TOXIN ERGTX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CENTRUROIDES NOXIUS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CODE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SCORPION;

ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SCORPION VENOMS;

CENTRUROIDES NOXIUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SCORPIONES;

EID: 84858734578     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2012.02.001     Document Type: Article

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