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d-Amino Acid Substitution of α-Conotoxin RgIA Identifies its Critical Residues and Improves the Enzymatic Stability
α-Conotoxin RgIA is a selective and potent competitive antagonist of rat α9α10 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChR), but it is much less potent towards human α9α10 nAChR. Furthermore, RgIA is susceptible to proteolytic degradation due to containing four arginine residues. These disadvantages gr...
Autores principales: | Ren, Jie, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Xu, Pan, Li, Rui, Fu, Ying, Dong, Shuai, Zhangsun, Dongting, Wu, Yong, Luo, Sulan |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6472032/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30823399 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/md17030142 |
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