Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 39970897)
Scorpion a-toxins are a family of toxic proteins with similar scaffold, but possess divergent pharmacological properties. Analysis of cDNA sequences reveals that the numbers of nucleotide substitutions per site (K) fo...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 39970897).
Two non-coding transcripts of toxins were iso-lated from the venom gland cDNA library of the Chinese scorpion Buthus martensii Karsch, named BmαTX15-SP and BmTXKβ-SP, respectively. Analysis of nucleotide sequences s...