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We purified and characterized a 27 amino acid toxin from a snail-hunting Conus venom, Conus textile. This toxin causes convulsive-like activity in snails and causes subordinate lobsters to assume an exaggerated dominant posture. The sequence of this peptide is Trp-Cys-Lys-Gln-Ser-Gly-Glu-Met-Cys-Asn-Leu-Leu-Asp-Gln-Asn-Cys-Cys-Asp- Gly-Tyr-Cys-Ile-Val-Leu-Val-Cys-Thr. The sequence was confirmed by determining the nucleotide sequence of a cDNA clone coding for the peptide. The conservation of Cys residues compared to the omega-conotoxins from piscivorous Conus venom suggests that toxins from different cone venoms may use only a few "Cys-motifs" as conserved structural backbones for targeting to a variety of receptors in different animals.
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