Assembling an arsenal,the scorpion way |
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| Authors: | Adi Kozminsky-Atias Adi Bar-Shalom Dan Mishmar Noam Zilberberg |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel;(2) Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel |
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| Abstract: | Background For survival, scorpions depend on a wide array of short neurotoxic polypeptides. The venoms of scorpions from the most studied
group, the Buthida, are a rich source of small, 23–78 amino acid-long peptides, well packed by either three or four disulfide
bridges that affect ion channel function in excitable and non-excitable cells. |
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