MmTX1 and MmTX2 from coral snake venom potently modulate GABAA receptor activity.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on February 09, 2015

Authors

Jean-Pierre Rosso1, Jürgen R Schwarz2, Marcelo Diaz-Bustamante3, Brigitte Céard1, José M Gutiérrez4, Matthias Kneussel2, Olaf Pongs5, Frank Bosmans6, Pierre E Bougis7

Author Affiliations

1: Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Centre de Recherche en Neurobiologie et Neurophysiologie de Marseille UMR7286, 13344 Marseille, France;
2: Institute of Molecular Neurogenetics, Zentrum für Molekulare Neurobiologie Hamburg, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany;
3: Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205;
4: Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, 11501 San Jose, Costa Rica;
5: Institut für Physiologie, Universität des Saarlandes, 66424 Homburg, Germany; and.
6: Department of Physiology and Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205 frankbosmans@jhmi.edu pierre-edouard.bougis@univ-amu.fr.
7: Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Centre de Recherche en Neurobiologie et Neurophysiologie de Marseille UMR7286, 13344 Marseille, France; frankbosmans@jhmi.edu pierre-edouard.bougis@univ-amu.fr.

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