Evidence 1
Activity
Activity
Neurotoxin
FUNCTION: Potent inhibitor of insect (bee brain), but not mammalian (rat trigeminal neurons), voltage-gated calcium channels (Cav). In vivo, injection into lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum) induces curling of all eight legs into closed loops, followed by death. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:16330063}.
Target
voltage-gated calcium channel (Cav)
Source & Reference
NA
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Tox-Prot
Other
Hadronyche versuta (Blue mountains funnel-web spider) (Atrax versutus)
Neurotoxin
Calcium channel impairing toxin
Ion channel impairing toxin
Voltage-gated calcium channel impairing toxin
Potent inhibitor of insect (bee brain), but not mammalian (rat trigeminal neurons), voltage-gated calcium channels (Cav). In vivo, injection into lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum) induces curling of all eight legs into closed loops, followed by death..
Omega-hexatoxin-Hv2a (Omega-HXTX-Hv2a) (Omega-atracotoxin-Hv2a) (AcTx-Hv2) (Omega-AcTx-Hv2a)
spider
Neurotoxin 15 family, 02 (omega-actx) subfamily
Evidence at protein level
3D-structure
Calcium channel impairing toxin
Direct protein sequencing
Disulfide bond
Ion channel impairing toxin
Knottin
Neurotoxin
Secreted
Toxin
Voltage-gated calcium channel impairing toxin
TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed by the venom gland. {ECO:0000305|PubMed:11522785}.