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Animal Toxins

Facts and Protocols

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  • © 2000

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Editors:
  1. Hervé Rochat

    1. Laboratoire de Biochimie, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille Cedex 20, France

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  2. Marie-France Martin-Eauclaire

    1. Laboratoire de Biochimie, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille Cedex 20, France

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Assays for Dinoflagellate Toxins, Specifically Brevetoxin, Ciguatoxin, and Saxitoxin

    • Vera L. Trainer, Mark A. Poli
    Pages 1-19

  3. Maitotoxin, Okadaic Acid, and Microcystins: Toxins That Disturb Signal Transduction and Phosphorylations

    • Simone Puiseux-Dao, Noureddine Bouaïcha, Georges Diogene
    Pages 20-30

  4. Sea Anemone Toxins, Acting on Na+ Channels and K+ Channels: Isolation and Characterization

    • Lászlo Béress, Thomas Bruhn, Judith Sánchez-Rodriguez, Elmar Wachter, Hugues Schweitz
    Pages 31-56

  5. Nemertine Toxins

    • William R. Kem
    Pages 57-73

  6. Conus Peptides and Their Iodinated Derivatives as Probes for Ion Channels and Receptors

    • Lourdes J. Cruz, J. Michael McIntosh, Julita S. Imperial, William R. Gray
    Pages 74-89

  7. Ant Polypeptide Toxins

    • Kirill A. Pluzhnikov, Ludmilla V. Shevchenko, Evgeniy V. Grishin
    Pages 90-98

  8. Wasp Kinins and Kinin Analogues

    • Tom Piek
    Pages 99-115

  9. Mastoparan as a G Protein Activator

    • Terumi Nakajima, Kaori Wakamatsu, Hidehito Mukai
    Pages 116-126

  10. Pharmacologically Active Peptides and Proteins from Bee Venom

    • Peter N. Strong, Jonathan D. F. Wadsworth
    Pages 127-151

  11. Purification and Characterization of Scorpion Toxins Acting on Voltage-Sensitive Na+ Channels

    • Marie-France Martin-Eauclaire, Hervé Rochat
    Pages 152-168

  12. Immunological Properties of Scorpion Toxins

    • Christiane Devaux, Mohamed El Ayeb
    Pages 169-182

  13. Scorpion Toxins and Potassium Channels

    • Maria L. Garcia, Markus Hanner, Hans-Günther Knaus, Robert S. Slaughter, Gregory J. Kaczorowski
    Pages 183-195

  14. Chemical Synthesis and Characterization of Small Proteins: Example of Scorpion Toxins

    • Jean-Marc Sabatier
    Pages 196-216

  15. Characterization of Animal Toxins Binding to Ionic Channels from Electrophysiological Recordings

    • Maurice Gola, Marcel Crest
    Pages 217-228

  16. “Three-Fingered” Toxins from Hydrophid and Elapid Snakes: Artificial Procedures to Overproduce Wild-Type and Mutated Curaremimetic Toxins

    • Jean-Claude Boulain, Frédéric Ducancel, Gilles Mourier, Pascal Drevet, André Ménez
    Pages 229-245

  17. Elapidae Toxins: The Fasciculins, and their Interaction with Acetylcholinesterase

    • Pascale Marchot, Pierre E. Bougis
    Pages 246-275

  18. Dendrotoxins and BPTI-like Proteins

    • Alan L. Harvey, Edward G. Rowan
    Pages 276-292

  19. Sarafotoxins:Cloning of mRNAs Encoding Sarafotoxin Precursors

    • Frédéric Ducancel, Jean-Claude Boulain, André Ménez
    Pages 293-303

  20. Snake Venom Phospholipase A2 Enzymes in Cell Biology

    • R. Manjunatha Kini
    Pages 304-318
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About this book

It is now something of a truism to say that natural toxins form a major compo­ nent of the molecular tools used increasingly frequently by the ever growing number of laboratories of various kinds. Evidence for this is provided not only by the increasing number of firms including such toxins in their catalogues but also by the large number of demands received by those who discover new tox­ ins. This book is designed to facilitate the work of scientists interested in explor­ ing a new domain of toxicology or in using toxins as tools for research. The length of this book has been kept reasonable by concentrating on animal tox­ ins, most of which are polypeptides. The venom of each animal contains a large number of toxins, which may be similar in terms of their physical and chemical properties and are therefore difficult to purify. However, their pharmacological activities may be very differ­ ent. These toxins are extremely active, and it is therefore necessary to demon­ strate conclusively that the activity observed really does correspond to the newly characterized molecule.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laboratoire de Biochimie, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille Cedex 20, France

    Hervé Rochat, Marie-France Martin-Eauclaire

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Animal Toxins

  • Book Subtitle: Facts and Protocols

  • Editors: Hervé Rochat, Marie-France Martin-Eauclaire

  • Series Title: Methods and Tools in Biosciences and Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8466-2

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Verlag 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-5983-6Published: 01 December 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-6020-7Published: 01 March 2000

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8466-2Published: 01 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 365

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general, Biomedicine general

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