Scorpion toxins specific for Na+‐channels
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- 1 September 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 264 (2) , 287-300
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00625.x
Abstract
Na+‐channel specific scorpion toxins are peptides of 60–76 amino acid residues in length, tightly bound by four disulfide bridges. The complete amino acid sequence of 85 distinct peptides are present...Keywords
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