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PROSITE documentation PDOC60015 |
Spider mu-agatoxins are cysteine-rich insecticidal polypeptides, which cause gradual but irreversible paralysis. These toxins cause repetitive firing and massive transmitter release (which is mediated by glutamate receptors) from presynaptic stores at neuromuscular junctions [1].
The mu-agatoxin family contains:
Mu-agatoxin family proteins have a [C-C-CC-C-C-C-C] cysteine arrangement. The three dimensional structure of mu-agatoxins possesses a knottin scafold (see <PDOC60004>) [E1] with a fourth pair of cysteine residues (marked '#' in the following schematic representation) involved in a vicinal disulfide linkage.
+-------------+ | | # # CxxxxxxCxxxxxxxCCxxxxCxCxxxxxCxC | || | | | +---------------+ +-----+ | +---------------+
'C': conserved cysteine involved in a disulfide bond. '#': fourth pair of cysteine residues.
Our signature pattern for mu-agatoxins contains the eight conserved cysteines involved in disulfide bonds.
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PROSITE method (with tools and information) covered by this documentation:
1 | Authors | Skinner W.S. Adams M.E. Quistad G.B. Kataoka H. Cesarin B.J. Enderlin F.E. Schooley D.A. |
Title | Purification and characterization of two classes of neurotoxins from the funnel web spider, Agelenopsis aperta. | |
Source | J. Biol. Chem. 264:2150-2155(1989). | |
PubMed ID | 2914898 |
E1 | Source | http://knottin.cbs.cnrs.fr |