A potassium channel toxin from the secretion of the sea anemone Bunodosoma granulifera. Isolation, amino acid sequence and biological activity

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Aneiros, A and García, I and Martínez, J R and Harvey, A L and Anderson, A J and Marshall, D L and Engström, A and Hellman, U and Karlsson, E (1993) A potassium channel toxin from the secretion of the sea anemone Bunodosoma granulifera. Isolation, amino acid sequence and biological activity. BBA - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1157 (1). pp. 86-92. ISSN 0006-3002 (https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4165(93)90082-J)

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Abstract

A peptide toxin affecting potassium channels was isolated from the sea anemone Bunodosoma granulifera. It facilitates acetylcholine release at avian neuromuscular junctions, competes with dendrotoxin I, a probe for voltage-dependent potassium channels, for binding to synaptosomal membranes of rat brain with a Ki of 0.7 nM and suppresses K+ currents in rat dorsal root ganglion neurones in culture. It represents a new structural type of potassium channel toxin with the sequence V1RCDWFKETA10CRHAKSLGNC20RTSQKYRANC30AKTLQCC37 (M(r) 4275, three disulfides).

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