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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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Autores principales: Kozminsky-Atias, Adi, Bar-Shalom, Adi, Mishmar, Dan, Zilberberg, Noam
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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