'Three-Fingered' Toxins from Hydrophid and Elapid Snakes: Artificial Procedures to Overproduce Wild-Type and Mutated Curaremimetic Toxins

Autor: Pascal Drevet, Andre Menez, Frédéric Ducancel, Gilles Mourier, Jean-Claude Boulain
Rok vydání: 2000
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Zdroj: Animal Toxins ISBN: 9783764360207
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8466-2_15
Popis: Toxic proteins from animal venoms usually act on molecular targets that are critically involved in the function of a physiological system of a prey. With the ultimate view of designing new pharmacological tools as well as original drugs acting on these targets, animal toxins are the subject of extensive molecular analyses. In particular, the topographies by which toxins bind to their targets and hence affect the function of the associated physiological system clearly need to be identified.
Databáze: OpenAIRE