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Synthetic Peptides and Drug Discovery

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Venomous glands of cone snails, scorpions, and so on contain many peptide neurotoxins. They mostly act on ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors with high specificity and are promising tools for developing novel peptide drugs. For this purpose, structure-function relationship of the peptides should be studied in detail. In this chapter, the relationships will be described for several peptide neurotoxins studied in the author’s laboratory such as conotoxins from cone snails and hefutoxins from scorpions.

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Sato, K. (2017). Synthetic Peptides and Drug Discovery. In: Cruz, L., Luo, S. (eds) Toxins and Drug Discovery. Toxinology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6452-1_14

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