A Novel Insecticidal Spider Peptide that Affects the Mammalian Voltage-Gated Ion Channel hKv1.5

• Main Authors: Diana Alvarado (Author), Samuel Cardoso-Arenas (Author), Ligia-Luz Co (Author), Herlinda Clement (Author), Iván Arenas (Author), Pavel Andrei Montero-Dominguez (Author), Timoteo Olamendi-Portugal (Author), Fernando Zamudio (Author), Agota Csoti (Author), Jesús Borrego (Author), Gyorgy Panyi (Author), Ferenc Papp (Author), Gerardo Corzo (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Spider venoms include various peptide toxins that modify the ion currents, mainly of excitable insect cells. Consequently, scientific research on spider venoms has revealed a broad range of peptide toxins with different pharmacological properties, even for mammal species. In this work, thirty animal...