Evidence 1
Activity
Activity
Neurotoxin
FUNCTION: This excitatory toxin inhibits insect calcium-activated potassium (KCa) channels (Slo-type). Pan-neuronal expression in Drosophila is lethal but flies engineered to express the toxin only in clock neurons have defects in circadian rhythm but a normal lifespan. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:10881200, ECO:0000269|PubMed:17141372, ECO:0000269|PubMed:18625007, ECO:0000269|PubMed:18986214}.
Target
voltage-gated potassium channel (Kv)
Source & Reference
NA
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Tox-Prot
Other
Hadronyche versuta (Blue mountains funnel-web spider) (Atrax versutus)
Neurotoxin
Calcium-activated potassium channel impairing toxin
Ion channel impairing toxin
Potassium channel impairing toxin
This excitatory toxin inhibits insect calcium-activated potassium (KCa) channels (Slo-type). Pan-neuronal expression in Drosophila is lethal but flies engineered to express the toxin only in clock neurons have defects in circadian rhythm but a normal lifespan..
Lambda-hexatoxin-Hv1c (Lambda-HXTX-Hv1c) (Janus-atracotoxin-Hv1c) (Janus-AcTx-Hv1c) (Kappa-atracotoxin-Hv1c) (Kappa-AcTx-Hv1c) (Kappa-hexatoxin-Hv1c) (Kappa-HXTX-Hv1c)
spider
Neurotoxin 11 (kappa toxin) family
Evidence at protein level
3D-structure
Calcium-activated potassium channel impairing toxin
Direct protein sequencing
Disulfide bond
Ion channel impairing toxin
Knottin
Neurotoxin
Potassium channel impairing toxin
Secreted
Toxin
TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed by the venom gland. {ECO:0000305|PubMed:10881200}.