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SAXS study of the snake toxin alpha-crotamine
J R Beltran1, Y P Mascarenhas, A F Craievich
1Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas, UNESP, Departamento de Fisica, Sáo José do Rio Preto-SP, Brazil.
European Biophysics Journal : EBJ
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
alpha-crotamine is a small toxic protein (42 amino acid residues with three disulphide bridges) present in the venom of Crotallus durissus terrificus. Molecular parameters (Rg = 13.7 A, S = 3,000 A2, V = 9,200 A3 and Dmax = 40 A) were derived from SAXS curves obtained from a solution of this protein at pH = 4.5. An excellent agreement between the experimental distance distribution curve and that calculated from a model consisting of two lobes linked by the Cys(18)-Cys(30) disulphide bridge.