Elsevier

Toxicon

Volume 29, Issue 11, 1991, Pages 1403-1408
Toxicon

Short communication
Chloride channel inhibition by the venom of the scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus

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Abstract

The venom of the scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus produced a significant, reversible inhibition of reconstituted Cl- channels of the small conductance type found in rat colonic epithelial cells. The kinetics of single-channel block by this venom were consistent with a first-order binding reaction in which the binding of one ligand molecule is sufficient to induce channel block. Single-channel mean block times were c.6 sec at −20mV, and a K1 in the submicromolar range is predicted. The active component has a mol. wt of roughly 5000 as judged by molecular sieve chromatography.

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