Evidence 1
Activity
Activity
Neurotoxin
FUNCTION: Specific arthropod (crab and insect) toxin that inhibits inactivation of voltage-gated sodium channels. It competes well with the site-3 toxin LqhalphaIT (from the scorpion L.quinquestriatus (AC P17728)) on binding to cockroach neuronal membranes (Ki=21.4 nM), and inhibits the inactivation of D.melanogaster channel (DmNav1), but not that of mammalian Navs expressed in Xenopus oocytes. Its activity is synergically enhanced by ligands of receptor site-4 (Bj-xtrIT (AC P56637)). Its ability to inhibit the channel mutant DmNav1[D1701R] only decreases 5-fold, whereas the inhibition activity is completely lost by LqhalphaIT and Av2 when tested on DmNav1[D1701R]. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17492942, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19609479, ECO:0000269|PubMed:2409523}.
Target
voltage-gated sodium channel (Nav)
Source & Reference
NA
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Tox-Prot
Other
Anemonia sulcata (Mediterranean snakelocks sea anemone)
Neurotoxin
Ion channel impairing toxin
Voltage-gated sodium channel impairing toxin
Specific arthropod (crab and insect) toxin that inhibits inactivation of voltage-gated sodium channels. It competes well with the site-3 toxin LqhalphaIT (from the scorpion L.quinquestriatus (AC P17728)) on binding to cockroach neuronal membranes (Ki=21.4 nM), and inhibits the inactivation of D.melanogaster channel (DmNav1), but not that of mammalian Navs expressed in Xenopus oocytes.
Delta-actitoxin-Avd2a (Delta-AITX-Avd2a) (ATX III) (Av3) (Neurotoxin 3) (Neurotoxin III)
sea anemone
Sea anemone short toxin (type III) family
Evidence at protein level
3D-structure
Direct protein sequencing
Disulfide bond
Ion channel impairing toxin
Nematocyst
Neurotoxin
Secreted
Toxin
Voltage-gated sodium channel impairing toxin