Mastoparan, a peptide toxin from wasp venom, mimics receptors by activating GTP-binding regulatory proteins (G proteins).

This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:

• G PROTEINS: TRANSDUCERS OF RECEPTOR-GENERATED SIGNALS
  Annual Review of Biochemistry, 1987
• A family of receptors coupled to guanine nucleotide regulatory proteins
  Biochemistry, 1987
• Ligand binding to the β-adrenergic receptor involves its rhodopsin-like core
  Nature, 1987
• A wasp venom mastoparan-induced polyphosphoinositide breakdown in rat peritoneal mast cells
  FEBS Letters, 1985
• Catecholamine-stimulated guanosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) binding to the stimulatory GTP-binding protein of adenylate cyclase: kinetic analysis in reconstituted phospholipid vesicles
  Biochemistry, 1984
• Synthesis of a wasp venom tetradecapeptide, mastoparan, with a new cleaving system for 4-methoxy-2,3,6-trimethylbenzenesulfonyl (Mtr) amino-protecting group.
  CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN, 1984
• Transferred NOE analyses of conformations of peptides as bound to membrane bilayer of phospholipid; mastoparan‐X
  FEBS Letters, 1983
• Conformational change of mastoparan from wasp venom on binding with phospholipid membrane
  FEBS Letters, 1983
• Effects of Peptides on the Release of Catecholamines and Adenine Nucleotides from Cultured Adrenal Chromaffin Cells
  Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B, 1980
• A new mast cell degranulating peptide "mastoparan" in the venom of Vespula lewisii.
  CHEMICAL & PHARMACEUTICAL BULLETIN, 1979