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Assembling an arsenal, the scorpion way.

BMC evolutionary biology - 16 Dec 2008

Kozminsky-Atias Adi, Bar-Shalom Adi, Mishmar Dan, Zilberberg Noam

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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. RESULTS: In this work, by constructing a toxin transcripts data set from...

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PMID: 19087317
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-333
PMCID: PMC2651877

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