A new ligand (Ts kappa) of the apamin binding site on rat brain synaptosomes (K0.5 = 300 pM) was purified and characterized from the venom of Tityus serrulatus. It is a polypeptide toxin of 35 amino acid residues, with three disulfide bridges. Its cDNA was amplified from a venom gland cDNA library and the nucleotide sequence determined. A model of Ts kappa was constructed by amino acid replacement using charybdotoxin structure as determined by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance as starting model.
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