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Toxin I from the venom of the black mamba snake Dendroaspis polylepis polylepis specifically blocks one component of the K-current (IKf1) in the frog node of Ranvier, with a high affinity (Kd = 4 X 10(-10) M) without significantly affecting either the others components of the K current (IKf2 and
The potassium channel blocker dendrotoxin I was acetylated with acetic anhydride. Mono-acetyl derivatives of all seven lysine residues (N-terminus blocked) and a di-derivative were isolated by chromatography on the cation-exchanger Bio-Rex 70 and reversed-phase high-performance liquid
The venom proteome of the black mamba, Dendroaspis polylepis, from Eastern Africa, was, for the first time, characterized. Forty- different proteins and one nucleoside were identified or assigned to protein families. The most abundant proteins were Kunitz-type proteinase inhibitors, which include