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A new toxic protein in the venom of the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector

1971; Elsevier BV; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0041-0101(71)90038-9

1879-3150

Eliahu Zlotkin, F. Miranda, Charles Kupeyan, Serge Lissitzky,

Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study

By use of starch gel zone electrophoresis and Sephadex G-50 gel filtration a toxic protein with contraction-paralysis as well as lethal activity to fly larvae has been isolated from the venom of the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector. This larva-toxic protein is different from the mice-lethal neurotoxins of the same venom. The significance of this finding is discussed.