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Deduction of functional peptide motifs in scorpion toxins

✍ Scribed by Paul T. J. Tan; Shoba Ranganathan; Vladimir Brusic

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 163 KB
Volume: 12
Category: Article
ISSN: 1075-2617
DOI: 10.1002/psc.744

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Abstract

Scorpion toxins are important physiological probes for characterizing ion channels. Molecular databases have limited functional annotation of scorpion toxins. Their function can be inferred by searching for conserved motifs in sequence signature databases that are derived statistically but are not necessarily biologically relevant. Mutation studies provide biological information on residues and positions important for structure–function relationship but are not normally used for extraction of binding motifs. 3D structure analyses also aid in the extraction of peptide motifs in which non‐contiguous residues are clustered spatially. Here we present new, functionally relevant peptide motifs for ion channels, derived from the analyses of scorpion toxin native and mutant peptides. Copyright © 2006 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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