Abstract:
:The eggs of black widow spider (L. tredecimguttatus) have been demonstrated to be rich in biologically active components that exhibit great research value and application foreground. In the present study, a protein toxin, named Latroeggtoxin-II, was isolated from the eggs using the combination of gel filtration, ion exchange chromatography and reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography. Electrospray mass spectrometric analysis indicated that the molecular weight of the protein was 28.69 kDa, and Edman degradation revealed that its N-terminal sequence was ESIQT STYVP NTPNQ KFDYE VGKDY-. After being abdominally injected into mice and P. americana, the protein could make the animals especially P. americana display a series of poisoning symptoms. Electrophysiological experiments demonstrated that the protein could selectively inhibit tetrodotoxin-resistant Na(+) channel currents in rat dorsal root ganglion neurons, without significant effect on the tetrodotoxin-sensitive Na(+) channel currents. Using multiple proteomic strategies, the purified protein was shown to have only a few similarities to the existing proteins in the databases, suggesting that it was a novel protein isolated from the eggs of black widow spiders.
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Int J Biol Macromoljournal_title
International journal of biological macromoleculesauthors
Li J,Yan Y,Yu H,Peng X,Zhang Y,Hu W,Duan Z,Wang X,Liang Sdoi
10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2014.01.004subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-04-01 00:00:00pages
115-20eissn
0141-8130issn
1879-0003pii
S0141-8130(14)00005-1journal_volume
65pub_type
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