New tricks of an old pattern: Structural versatility of scorpion toxins with common cysteine spacing

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 12321-12330

  Saucedo, Alma Leticia ^a   Flores Solis, David ^a   Rodríguez De La Vega, Ricardo C ^b   Ramírez Cordero, Belén ^a   Hernández López, Rogelio ^c   Cano Sánchez, Patricia ^a   Navarro, Roxana Noriega ^a   García Valdés, Jesús ^a   Coronas Valderrama, Fredy ^d   De Roodt, Adolfo ^e   Brieba, Luis G ^f   Possani, Lourival Domingos ^d   Del Río Portilla, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^f DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE BRIDGE; HELICAL SEGMENTS; MOLECULAR SCAFFOLDS; NOVEL FOLDS; SCORPION VENOM; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL COMPARISON; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY;

AMINO ACIDS; COVALENT BONDS; PEPTIDES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; SCORPION; TITYUS TRIVITATTUS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, REVERSE-PHASE; CYSTEINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; XENOPUS;

SCORPIONES; TITYUS;

EID: 84859479845     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.329607     Document Type: Article

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