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Assembling an arsenal, the scorpion way
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 fun...
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2651877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19087317 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-333 |