κ-yeast toxin 2

Potassium channel toxin kappa-KTx 1.2
other names	Kappa-yeastutoxin-2
Mass / length primary structure	23 amino acids , 2,717 Da
Identifier
External IDs	UniProt : P82851 ;
Occurrence
Parent taxon	Heterometrus fulvipes

κ-yeast toxin 2 is a toxin from the scorpion Heterometrus fulvipes .

properties

κ-yeast toxin 2 is a protein and scorpion toxin from the scorpion Heterometrus fulvipes , as is κ-yeast toxin 1 . It slows down the activation of various potassium channels . No structurally related proteins are known to the toxins κ-yeastutoxin 1 and 2.

Individual evidence

↑ KN Srinivasan, V. Sivaraja, I. Huys, T. Sasaki, B. Cheng, TK Kumar, K. Sato, J. Tytgat, C. Yu, BC San, S. Ranganathan, HJ Bowie, RM Kini, P. Gopalakrishnakone: kappa-Hefutoxin1, a novel toxin from the scorpion Heterometrus fulvipes with unique structure and function. Importance of the functional diad in potassium channel selectivity. In: The Journal of biological chemistry. Volume 277, Number 33, August 2002, pp. 30040-30047, doi : 10.1074 / jbc.M111258200 , PMID 12034709 .

[1] KN Srinivasan, V. Sivaraja, I. Huys, T. Sasaki, B. Cheng, TK Kumar, K. Sato, J. Tytgat, C. Yu, BC San, S. Ranganathan, HJ Bowie, RM Kini, P. Gopalakrishnakone: kappa-Hefutoxin1, a novel toxin from the scorpion Heterometrus fulvipes with unique structure and function. Importance of the functional diad in potassium channel selectivity. In: The Journal of biological chemistry. Volume 277, Number 33, August 2002, pp. 30040-30047, doi : 10.1074 / jbc.M111258200 , PMID 12034709 .