Castañeda, O and Sotolongo, V and Amor, A M and Stöcklin, R and Anderson, A J and Harvey, A L and Engström, A and Wernstedt, C and Karlsson, E (1995) Characterization of a potassium channel toxin from the Caribbean Sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus. Toxicon, 33 (5). pp. 603-613. ISSN 0041-0101
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A peptide toxin, ShK, that blocks voltage-dependent potassium channels was isolated from the whole body extract of the Caribbean sea anemone Stichodactyla helianthus. It competes with dendrotoxin I and alpha-dendrotoxin for binding to synaptosomal membranes of rat brain, facilities acetylcholine release at an avian neuromuscular junction and suppresses K+ currents in rat dorsal root ganglion neurones in culture. Its amino acid sequence is R1SCIDTIPKS10RCTAFQCKHS20MKYRLSFCRK30TCGTC35. There is no homology with other K+ channel-blocking peptides, except for BgK from the sea anemone Bunodosoma granulifera. ShK and BgK appear to be in a different structural class from other toxins affecting K+ channels.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 31637 |
| Keywords: | amino acid sequence, amino acids, animals, cnidarian venoms, molecular sequence data, potassium channel blockers, potassium channels, rats, sea anemones, synaptosomes, Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Subjects: | Medicine > Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences Faculty of Engineering > Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
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| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2011 09:56 |
| Last modified: | 12 Mar 2012 11:28 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/31637 |
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