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从东亚钳蝎 (ButhusmartensiiKarsch ,BmK)毒腺组织cDNA文库中分离的长链钾通道毒素BmTXKβcDNA序列 ,克隆了BmTXKβ基因组序列 .BmTXKβ基因含有一个长度为 886bp的内含子 ,定位于BmTXKβ成熟肽中 ,与其它蝎毒素基因内含子定位于信号肽的基因结构不同 .并且 ,BmTXKβ基因的内含子特征也与其它蝎毒素基因不同 .研究结果从基因水平上证实了BmTXKβ是一个新的蝎毒素样肽 .以BmTXKβcDNA序列为探针与蝎基因组DNASouthern杂交出现 2条特异性杂交带 .杂交结果为蝎毒素基因可能通过DNA重排、多拷贝或多基因家族来调控基因表达提供了证据 . 相似文献
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东亚钳蝎蝎毒素BmKBT基因组序列的克隆及其分析 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
东亚钳蝎 (ButhusmartensiiKarsch ,BmK)蝎毒素BmKBT(又名BmKabT)是一个在初级结构上相似于β类哺乳动物毒素和功能接近于α类哺乳动物毒素的Na+ 通道毒素 .基于从毒腺cDNA文库中筛选得到的全长BmKBT前体核苷酸序列设计引物 ,以蝎基因组总DNA为模板进行聚合酶链式反应 (PCR) ,将PCR产物克隆至T载体、测序 .序列分析表明 :在BmKBT信号肽编码区的 3′端的- 4位Gly密码子的第 1位与第 2位碱基中有 1个长 2 2 5nt的内含子 ,插入位点距离该基因的起始密码子 4 6nt ,AT含量为 78 7% ,其内含子可能的剪接分枝位点距离 3′剪接受体位点 4 7nt.内含子的大小及其基因组织结构分析表明 :BmKBT具有与α类哺乳动物毒素类似的基因组织结构 ,进一步说明BmKBT是一个介于α类和β类Na+ 通道毒素之间的中间型蝎毒素 ,可以作为研究蝎毒素分子进化的合适材料 相似文献
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蝎长链神经毒素研究进展 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
蝎长链神经毒素由60-76个残基组成,含4对二硫键,主要作用于可兴奋细胞的Na^ 通道,这些毒素的作用方式和选择性各有不同,其中功能相似的毒素,其蛋白质及基因序列也都很相似,所有这些长链毒素的三结构地都采用相似的折叠方式,对这些毒素结构与功能研究的深入,将有利于我们对蝎毒素作用机理的了解,并有可能使其更具有生物防虫害或疾病治疗等实际意义。 相似文献
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昆虫钠离子通道的研究进展 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
昆虫只有一个或两个电压门控钠离子通道α亚基基因,但两种转录后修饰(选择性剪切和RNA编辑)实现了昆虫钠离子通道的功能多样性。昆虫β辅助亚基TipE和TEH1-4在钠离子通道表达和调控中也起着重要作用。电压门控钠离子通道在动作电位的产生和传递中至关重要,是多种天然和人工合成神经毒素及杀虫剂的作用靶标,包括广泛使用的拟除虫菊酯类、茚虫威和氰氟虫腙等杀虫剂。其中,拟除虫菊酯类杀虫剂通过调控昆虫钠离子通道的失活和去激活,延长跨膜钠离子流的时间,引起神经兴奋性传导障碍;茚虫威和氰氟虫腙阻断昆虫中枢和外周神经系统神经元的动作电位传导,这些神经毒剂都能干扰昆虫钠离子通道的正常功能。昆虫钠离子通道一般存在两个拟除虫菊酯类杀虫剂结合位点,但不同物种钠离子通道与拟除虫菊酯的结合位点存在一定差异。据此,本文就昆虫钠离子通道及其与杀虫剂的相互作用加以综述,有望推动昆虫神经受体研究,且对鉴定昆虫抗药性相关突变位点和研发高效的杀虫剂均具有重要参考价值。 相似文献
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Bt Cry毒素是当前研究最深入、应用最广的生物抗虫蛋白,对农业害虫的绿色防治发挥了重大作用。然而,随着其制剂和转基因抗虫作物的广泛应用,由此驱动诱发的靶标害虫抗药性及潜在生态安全风险等问题日益凸显。探寻具备模拟Bt Cry毒素杀虫功能的新型抗虫蛋白材料,不仅可为农作物持续健康生产保驾护航,也能在一定程度上缓解靶标害虫对Bt Cry毒素的抗药性压力。近年来,笔者团队以抗体“免疫网络学说(immune network theory)”中Ab2β类型抗独特型抗体(anti-idiotype antibody, Anti-Id)具备模拟抗原结构和功能的特性为理论依据,借助噬菌体展示抗体库及特异性抗体高通量筛选与鉴定技术,设计Bt Cry毒素抗体为包被靶点抗原,从噬菌体抗体库中靶向筛选到了一系列具备模拟Bt Cry毒素抗虫功能的Ab2β类型抗独特型抗体(即Bt Cry毒素抗虫模拟物),其中活性最强的Bt Cry毒素抗虫模拟物对靶标害虫的致死率接近相应原Bt Cry毒素的80%,初步实现了Bt Cry毒素抗虫模拟物的靶向设计。本文从理论依据、技术条件、研究现状等方面进行系统概述,并就相关技术发展... 相似文献
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多肽类毒素研究是目前毒素研究的一个重点,对多肽类毒素的三维结构的研究是了解其结构与功能关系的重要基础.对蜘蛛、蝎以及芋螺这3类代表性的有毒动物的多肽类毒素在结构研究方面的进展及其三维结构的特点进行了介绍.其中,蜘蛛毒素多肽分子的结构主要发现有ICK模体(Inhibitor Cystine Knot motif)和D DH模体(disulfided-irectedh-airpin)两类,蝎毒素中长链肽类毒素分子和短链肽类毒素分子的结构明显不同,前者以CSα/β结构模体(Cyss-tabilizedα/βfold m otif)为主,后者则以α/β脚手架结构模体(α/βscaffoldm otif)为主.相对于蜘蛛和蝎而言,芋螺肽类毒素分子的三维结构则表现得更为复杂多样. 相似文献
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短肽蝎毒素的结构分类与功能特征 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
大量的资料已证实蝎毒中主要致死成分是一类由60~70个残基组成, 选择性地作用于电压门控Na+通道的长肽毒素.另一类由30~40个残基组成的短肽蝎毒素,由于其具有结构致密,易于合成改造的优点,特别是具有选择性地阻遏K+或Cl-通道的特异药理功效,近年来倍受学术界的关注,并在结构与功能方面取得了很大的研究进展. 相似文献
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蝎短肽链神经毒素研究进展 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
对蝎短肽链神经毒素结构与功能研究进展作了简要的论述,蝎毒中富含短肽链神经毒素,至今已经分离纯化到60多种,它们的大小介于28-41个氨基酸残基之间,分子中含有3-4对二硫键,空间结构紧密,这些毒素可以特异性地与K+,Cl-和Ca2 等离子通道相结合,由于它们对离子通道的选择性,这些毒素在药理学和神经生物学中已经得到了广泛的应用。 相似文献
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Arnon T Potikha T Sher D Elazar M Mao W Tal T Bosmans F Tytgat J Ben-Arie N Zlotkin E 《Insect biochemistry and molecular biology》2005,35(3):187-195
Long-chain neurotoxins derived from the venom of the Buthidae scorpions, which affect voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) can be subdivided according to their toxicity to insects into insect-selective excitatory and depressant toxins (beta-toxins) and the alpha-like toxins which affect both mammals and insects. In the present study by the aid of reverse-phase HPLC column chromatography, RT-PCR, cloning and various toxicity assays, a new insect selective toxin designated as BjalphaIT was isolated from the venom of the Judean Black Scorpion (Buthotus judaicus), and its full primary sequence was determined: MNYLVVICFALLLMTVVESGRDAYIADNLNCAYTCGSNSYCNTECTKNGAVSGYCQWLGKYGNACWCINLPDKVPIRIPGACR (leader sequence is underlined). Despite its lack of toxicity to mammals and potent toxicity to insects, BjalphaIT reveals an amino acid sequence and an inferred spatial arrangement that is characteristic of the well-known scorpion alpha-toxins highly toxic to mammals. BjalphaITs sharp distinction between insects and mammals was also revealed by its effect on sodium conductance of two cloned neuronal VGSCs heterloguously expressed in Xenopus laevis oocytes and assayed with the two-electrode voltage-clamp technique. BjalphaIT completely inhibits the inactivation process of the insect para/tipE VGSC at a concentration of 100 nM, in contrast to the rat brain Na(v)1.2/beta1 which is resistant to the toxin. The above categorical distinction between mammal and insect VGSCs exhibited by BjalphaIT enables its employment in the clarification of the molecular basis of the animal group specificity of scorpion venom derived neurotoxic polypeptides and voltage-gated sodium channels. 相似文献
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Dalia Gordon 《Invertebrate neuroscience : IN》1997,3(2-3):103-116
Voltage-sensitive sodium channels are responsible for the generation of electrical signals in most excitable tissues and serve
as specific targets for many neurotoxins. At least seven distinct classes of neurotoxins have been designated on the basis
of physiological activity and competitive binding studies. Although the characterization of the neurotoxin receptor sites
was predominantly performed using vertebrate excitable preparations, insect neuronal membranes were shown to possess similar
receptor sites. We have demonstrated that the two mutually competing antiinsect excitatory and depressant scorpion toxins,
previously suggested to occupy the same receptor site, bind to two distinct receptors on insect sodium channels. The latter
provides a new approach to their combined use in insect control strategy. Although the sodium channel receptor sites are topologically
separated, there are strong allosteric interactions among them. We have shown that the lipid-soluble sodium channel activators,
veratridine and brevetoxin, reveal divergent allosteric modulation on scorpion α-toxins binding at homologous receptor sites
on mammalian and insect sodium channels. The differences suggest a functionally important structural distinction between these
channel subtypes. The differential allosteric modulation may provide a new approach to increase selective activity of pesticides
on target organisms by simultaneous application of allosterically interacting drugs, designed on the basis of the selective
toxins. Thus, a comparative study of neurotoxin receptor sites on mammalian and invertebrate sodium channels may elucidate
the structural features involved in the binding and activity of the various neurotoxins, and may offer new targets and approaches
to the development of highly selective pesticides. 相似文献
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Voltage-gated sodium channels (Navs) are large transmembrane proteins that initiate action potential in electrically excitable cells. This central role in the nervous system has made them a primary target for a large number of neurotoxins. Scorpion alpha-neurotoxins bind to Navs with high affinity and slow their inactivation, causing a prolonged action potential. Despite the similarity in their mode of action and three-dimensional structure, alpha-toxins exhibit great variations in selectivity toward insect and mammalian Navs, suggesting differences in the binding surfaces of the toxins and the channels. The scorpion alpha-toxin binding site, termed neurotoxin receptor site 3, has been shown to involve the extracellular S3-S4 loop in domain 4 of the alpha-subunit of voltage-gated sodium channels (D4/S3-S4). In this study, the binding site for peptides corresponding to the D4/S3-S4 loop of the para insect Nav was mapped on the highly insecticidal alpha-neurotoxin, LqhalphaIT, from the scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus, by following changes in the toxin amide 1H and 15N chemical shifts upon binding. This analysis suggests that the five-residue turn (residues LqK8-LqC12) of LqhalphaIT and those residues in its vicinity interact with the D4/S3-S4 loop of Nav. Residues LqR18, LqW38, and LqA39 could also form a patch contributing to the interaction with D4/S3-S4. Moreover, a new bioactive residue, LqV13, was identified as being important for Nav binding and specifically for the interaction with the D4/S3-S4 loop. The contribution of LqV13 to NaV binding was further verified by mutagenesis. Future studies involving other extracellular regions of Navs are required for further characterization of the structure of the LqhalphaIT-Navs binding site. 相似文献
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Scorpion toxins are important physiological probes for characterizing ion channels. Molecular databases have limited functional annotation of scorpion toxins. Their function can be inferred by searching for conserved motifs in sequence signature databases that are derived statistically but are not necessarily biologically relevant. Mutation studies provide biological information on residues and positions important for structure-function relationship but are not normally used for extraction of binding motifs. 3D structure analyses also aid in the extraction of peptide motifs in which non-contiguous residues are clustered spatially. Here we present new, functionally relevant peptide motifs for ion channels, derived from the analyses of scorpion toxin native and mutant peptides. 相似文献
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Chang Xie Tian LiLingna Xu Congya YuZhijian Cao Wenxin Li Yingliang Wu 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》2014
Scorpion toxin Ctri9577, as a potent Kv1.3 channel blocker, is a new member of the α-KTx15 subfamily which are a group of blockers for Kv4.x potassium channels. However, the pharmacological function of Ctri9577 for Kv4.x channels remains unknown. Scorpion toxin Ctri9577 was found to effectively inhibit Kv4.3 channel currents with IC50 value of 1.34 ± 0.03 μM. Different from the mechanism of scorpion toxins as the blocker recognizing channel extracellular pore entryways, Ctri9577 was a novel gating modifier affecting voltage dependence of activation, steady-state inactivation, and the recovery process from the inactivation of Kv4.3 channel. However, Ctri9755, as a potent Kv1.3 channel blocker, was found not to affect voltage dependence of activation of Kv1.3 channel. Interestingly, pharmacological experiments indicated that 1 μM Ctri9755 showed less inhibition on Kv4.1 and Kv4.2 channel currents. Similar to the classical gating modifier of spider toxins, Ctri9577 was shown to interact with the linker between the transmembrane S3 and S4 helical domains through the mutagenesis experiments. To the best of our knowledge, Ctri9577 was the first gating modifier of potassium channels among scorpion toxin family, and the first scorpion toxin as both gating modifier and blocker for different potassium channels. These findings further highlighted the structural and functional diversity of scorpion toxins specific for the potassium channels. 相似文献
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A scorpion venom neurotoxin paralytic to insects that affects sodium current inactivation: purification, primary structure, and mode of action 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
A new toxin, Lqh alpha IT, which caused a unique mode of paralysis of blowfly larvae, was purified from the venom of the scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus, and its structural and pharmacological properties were compared to those of three other groups of neurotoxins found in Buthinae scorpion venoms. Like the excitatory and depressant insect-selective neurotoxins, Lqh alpha IT was highly toxic to insects, but it differed from these toxins in two important characteristics: (a) Lqh alpha IT lacked strict selectivity for insects; it was highly toxic to crustaceans and had a measurable but low toxicity to mice. (b) It did not displace an excitatory insect toxin, 125I-AaIT, from its binding sites in the insect neuronal membrane; this indicates that the binding sites for Lqh alpha IT are different from those shared by the excitatory and depressant toxins. However, in its primary structure and its effect on excitable tissues, Lqh alpha IT strongly resembled the well-characterized alpha scorpion toxins, which affect mammals. The amino acid sequence was identical with alpha toxin sequences in 55%-75% of positions. This degree of similarity is comparable to that seen among the alpha toxins themselves. Voltage- and current-clamp studies showed that Lqh alpha IT caused an extreme prolongation of the action potential in both cockroach giant axon and rat skeletal muscle preparations as a result of the slowing and incomplete inactivation of the sodium currents. These observations indicate that Lqh alpha IT is an alpha toxin which acts on insect sodium channels.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS) 相似文献
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Scorpion toxins that affect sodium channel gating traditionally are divided into alpha- and beta-classes. They show vast diversity in their selectivity for phyletic- or isoform-specific sodium channels. This article discusses the molecular mechanism of the selectivity. Moreover, a phylogenetic tree of scorpion toxins has been constructed, which, together with the worldwide distribution of toxins and the zoogeographic dispersion of the studied genera, offers an insight into the evolution of diverse scorpion toxins. 相似文献
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Yong-Bo Song Lin Ma Wen-Yao Yang Jian Wang Mao-Sheng Cheng Chun-Fu Wu Jing-Hai Zhang 《Comptes rendus biologies》2010,333(9):637-641
The present study aimed at determining the functional characteristics of anti-neuroexcitation peptide II (ANEPII). The depressant insect toxin ANEPII from the Chinese scorpion Buthus martensii Karsch had an effect on insect sodium channels. Previous studies showed that scorpion depressant toxins induce insect flaccid paralysis upon binding to receptor site-4, so we tried to predict the functional residues involved using computational techniques. In this study, three-dimensional structure modeling of ANEPII and site-4 of the insect sodium channel were carried out by homology modeling, and these models were used as the starting point for nanosecond-duration molecular dynamics simulations. Docking studies of ANEPII in the sodium channel homology model were conducted, and likely ANEPII binding loci were investigated. Based on these analyses, the residues Tyr34, Trp36, Gly39, Leu40, Trp53, Asn58, Gly61 and Gly62 were predicted to interact with sodium channel receptor and to act as functional residues. 相似文献
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The selective toxicity of depressant scorpion neurotoxins to insects is useful in studying the insect sodium channel gating, as well as being relevant to several other applications. In order to carry out structure/activity studies, the functional expression of such polypeptides is required. In the work reported here, the cDNA of a new peptide from the venom of the scorpion Buthotus saulcyi was cloned and sequenced. It codes for a 64 residues peptide (BsaulI) with 8 highly-conserved cysteines. This peptide shares high sequence similarity with depressant insect toxins of other scorpion species. Large amounts of insoluble BsaulI protein were expressed in Escherichia coli. Purification of this peptide was carried out under denaturing conditions. Renaturation was performed by pulsed dilution of the denatured BsaulI in the refolding buffer. Production of refolded Bsaul1, however, is approximately an order of magnitude higher than that obtained with similar scorpion depressant toxins. Intrinsic fluorescence, far-UV circular dichroism spectra and biological activity assays indicate that the peptide adopts a folded structure. 相似文献