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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Peptides > Erabutoxins

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Erabutoxins  

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Note

  • toxins from venom of a sea snake; /antag permitted but consider also ANTIVENINS

Scope note

  • Toxins isolated from the venom of Laticauda semifasciata, a sea snake (Hydrophid); immunogenic, basic polypeptides of 62 amino acids, folded by four disulfide bonds, block neuromuscular end-plates irreversibly, thus causing paralysis and severe muscle damage; they are similar to Elapid neurotoxins.

History note

  • 91(73); was see under HYDROPHID VENOMS 1978-90; was see under SNAKE VENOMS 1975-77

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004870

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