Investigation of the relationship between the structure and function of Ts2, a neurotoxin from Tityus serrulatus venom

FEBS Journal

Volumn 279, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1495-1504

  Cologna, Camila T ^a   Peigneur, Steve ^b   Rustiguel, Joane K ^a   Nonato, M Cristina ^a   Tytgat, Jan ^b   Arantes, Eliane C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

neurotoxin; neurotoxin; sodium channel; Tityus serrulatus; Ts2 three dimensional structure

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.2; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.3; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.4; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.5; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.6; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.7; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.8; TITYUS SERRULATUS TOXIN 2; TITYUS TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; ION CHANNEL GATING; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; OOCYTES; RATS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; SCORPIONES; TITYUS SERRULATUS;

EID: 84859606337     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2012.08545.x     Document Type: Article

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