Novel toxin genes, biological activity of putative toxins and molecular phylogeny of Conus furvus Reeve, 1843
The genus Conus comprises a remarkable group of predatory marine gastropods characterized by a special biochemistry of small constrained peptides, the conotoxins. These conotoxins have an extremely high affinity to a particular ion channel in the snail's prey. In this research, conotoxins from...
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2006.
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