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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-4-26
pubmed:abstractText
alpha-Like toxins, a unique group designated among the scorpion alpha-toxin class that inhibit sodium channel inactivation, are highly toxic to mice but do not compete for alpha-toxin binding to receptor site 3 on rat brain sodium channels. We analysed the sequence of a new alpha-like toxin, which was also highly active on insects, and studied its action and binding on both mammalian and insect sodium channels. Action of the alpha-like toxin on isolated cockroach axon is similar to that of an alpha-toxin, and the radioactive toxin binds with a high affinity to insect sodium channels. Other sodium channel neurotoxins interact competitively or allosterically with the insect alpha-like toxin receptor site, similarly to alpha-toxins, suggesting that the alpha-like toxin receptor site is closely related to receptor site 3. Conversely, on rat brain sodium channels, specific binding of 125I-alpha-like toxin could not be detected, although at high concentration it inhibits sodium current inactivation on rat brain sodium channels. The difficulty in measuring binding to rat brain channels may be attributed to low-affinity binding due to the acidic properties of the alpha-like toxins that also impair the interaction with receptor site 3. The results suggest that alpha-like toxins bind to a distinct receptor site on sodium channels that is differentially related to receptor site 3 on mammalian and insect sodium channels.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0953-816X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
975-85
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Axons, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Brain Chemistry, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Electric Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Iodine Radioisotopes, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Ion Channel Gating, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Mammals, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Mass Spectrometry, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Patch-Clamp Techniques, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Periplaneta, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Scorpion Venoms, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Sodium Channels, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Spinal Cord, pubmed-meshheading:10103091-Tetrodotoxin
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Scorpion alpha-like toxins, toxic to both mammals and insects, differentially interact with receptor site 3 on voltage-gated sodium channels in mammals and insects.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratire de Biochimie, Ingénierie des Protéines, CNRS UMR 6560, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article