FEATURES

FAMILY

sea anemone short toxin (type III) family

DESCRIPTION

Also known as STX3_ANESU, STX3. Specific arthropod (crab and insect) toxin that inhibits inactivation of voltage-gated sodium channels. It competes well with the site-3 toxin LqhalphaIT (from the scorpion L.quinquestriatus (AC P17728)) on binding to cockroach neuronal membranes (Ki=21.4 nM), and inhibits the inactivation of D.melanogaster channel (DmNav1), but not that of mammalian Navs expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Its activity is synergically enhanced by ligands of receptor site-4 (Bj-xtrIT (AC P56637)). Its ability to inhibit the channel mutant DmNav1[D1701R] only decreases 5-fold, whereas the inhibition activity is completely lost by LqhalphaIT and Av2 when tested on DmNav1[D1701R].

EXTERNAL LINKS

STX3

Delta-actitoxin-Avd2a

STX3

Molecular Synopsis