Novel excitatory Conus peptides define a new conotoxin superfamily
- 4 April 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Neurochemistry
- Vol. 85 (3), 610-621
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1471-4159.2003.01685.x
Abstract
A new class of Conus peptides, the I‐superfamily of conotoxins, has been characterized using biochemical, electrophysiological and molecular genetic methods. Peptides in this superfamily have a novel...Keywords
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