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Function
[TXDT1_ATRRO] Inhibits tetrodotoxin-sensitive voltage-gated sodium channels (Nav) by binding to site 3. It slows the inactivation, causes a prolongation of action potential duration resulting in repetitive firing in autonomic and motor nerve fibers. Does not depolarize the resting potential. Does not affect tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium channels. This lethal neurotoxin is active on both insect and mammalian voltage-gated sodium channels.[1] [2] [3] [4]
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
The solution structure of robustoxin, the lethal neurotoxin from the Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus, has been determined from 2D 1H NMR data. Robustoxin is a polypeptide of 42 residues cross-linked by four disulphide bonds, the connectivities of which were determined from NMR data and trial structure calculations to be 1-15, 8-20, 14-31 and 16-42 (a 1-4/2-6/3-7/5-8 pattern). The structure consists of a small three-stranded, anti-parallel beta-sheet and a series of interlocking gamma-turns at the C-terminus. It also contains a cystine knot, thus placing it in the inhibitor cystine knot motif family of structures, which includes the omega-conotoxins and a number of plant and animal toxins and protease inhibitors. Robustoxin contains three distinct charged patches on its surface, and an extended loop that includes several aromatic and non-polar residues. Both of these structural features may play a role in its binding to the voltage-gated sodium channel.
Solution structure of robustoxin, the lethal neurotoxin from the funnel-web spider Atrax robustus.,Pallaghy PK, Alewood D, Alewood PF, Norton RS FEBS Lett. 1997 Dec 15;419(2-3):191-6. PMID:9428632[5]
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References
- ↑ Mylecharane EJ, Spence I, Sheumack DD, Claassens R, Howden ME. Actions of robustoxin, a neurotoxic polypeptide from the venom of the male funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus), in anaesthetized monkeys. Toxicon. 1989;27(4):481-92. PMID:2728033
- ↑ Alewood D, Birinyi-Strachan LC, Pallaghy PK, Norton RS, Nicholson GM, Alewood PF. Synthesis and characterization of delta-atracotoxin-Ar1a, the lethal neurotoxin from venom of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atrax robustus). Biochemistry. 2003 Nov 11;42(44):12933-40. PMID:14596608 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi030091n
- ↑ Little MJ, Wilson H, Zappia C, Cestele S, Tyler MI, Martin-Eauclaire MF, Gordon D, Nicholson GM. Delta-atracotoxins from Australian funnel-web spiders compete with scorpion alpha-toxin binding on both rat brain and insect sodium channels. FEBS Lett. 1998 Nov 20;439(3):246-52. PMID:9845331
- ↑ Nicholson GM, Walsh R, Little MJ, Tyler MI. Characterisation of the effects of robustoxin, the lethal neurotoxin from the Sydney funnel-web spider Atrax robustus, on sodium channel activation and inactivation. Pflugers Arch. 1998 Jun;436(1):117-26. PMID:9560455
- ↑ Pallaghy PK, Alewood D, Alewood PF, Norton RS. Solution structure of robustoxin, the lethal neurotoxin from the funnel-web spider Atrax robustus. FEBS Lett. 1997 Dec 15;419(2-3):191-6. PMID:9428632
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