Structure-function elucidation of a new α-Conotoxin, Lo1a, from conus longurionis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 9573-9583

  Lebbe, Eline K M ^a   Peigneur, Steve ^a   Maiti, Mohitosh ^b   Devi, Prabha ^c   Ravichandran, Samuthirapandian ^d   Lescrinier, Eveline ^b   Ulens, Chris ^a   Waelkens, Etienne ^a   D'Souza, Lisette ^c   Herdewijn, Piet ^b   Tytgat, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b REGA INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^d ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANES; CLONING; DISEASES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MOLLUSCS; MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PEPTIDES;

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTORS; LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTIONS; NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS (NACHRS); PARKINSON DISEASE; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOLUTIONS; XENOPUS LAEVIS OOCYTES;

NEURONS;

ALPHA CONOTOXIN LO1A; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; CONOTOXIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; SNAIL VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONUS LONGURIONIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; IC 50; MARINE SNAIL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CONOTOXIN; CONOTOXIN STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS; NMR; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ALPHA7 NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR; ANIMALS; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; HUMANS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84898067172     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.556175     Document Type: Article

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