Purification and cDNA cloning of a novel neurotoxic peptide (Acra3) from the scorpion Androctonus crassicauda

Peptides

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 106-112

  Caliskan, Figen ^a,b   García, Blanca I ^b   Coronas, Fredy I V ^b   Restano Cassulini, Rita ^b   Korkmaz, Ferhan ^a   Sahin, Yalcin ^a   Corzo, Gerardo ^b   Possani, Lourival D ^b  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Acra3; Amino acid sequence; Androctonus crassicauda; Gene cloning; Scorpion toxin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE ACRA1; PEPTIDE ACRA2; PEPTIDE ACRA3; SCORPION VENOM; SERINE; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.2; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.3; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.4; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.5; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMIDATION; ANDROCTONUS CRASSICAUDA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITABILITY; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SCORPION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, REVERSE-PHASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRUSTACEA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GRYLLIDAE; HUMANS; LETHAL DOSE 50; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANDROCTONUS CRASSICAUDA; ANIMALIA; MUS; SCORPIONES;

EID: 84865247706     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: 18735169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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