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Nonconventional three-finger toxin BMLCL from krait Bungarus multicinctus venom with high affinity interacts with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

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Nonconventional three-finger toxin BMLCL was isolated from B. multicinctus venom, and its interaction with different subtypes of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) was studied. It was found that BMLCL is able to interact with high efficiency with both α7 and muscle type nAChRs.

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Original Russian Text © Yu.N. Utkin, I.E. Kasheverov, D.S. Kudryavtsev, T.V. Andreeva, V.G. Starkov, R.H. Ziganshin, D.V. Kuznetsov, Hoang Ngoc Anh, Nguyen Thi Thanh Thao, Nguyen Cuu Khoa, V.I. Tsetlin, 2015, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 464, No. 3, pp. 365–368.

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Utkin, Y.N., Kasheverov, I.E., Kudryavtsev, D.S. et al. Nonconventional three-finger toxin BMLCL from krait Bungarus multicinctus venom with high affinity interacts with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. Dokl Biochem Biophys 464, 294–297 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1607672915050099

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