Evidence 1
Activity
Activity
Neurotoxin
FUNCTION: Blocks voltage-gated sodium channels (Nav) (By similarity). Intracranial injection into mice causes lacrimation, slow breathing and death. Intrathorax injection into crickets causes death. {ECO:0000250, ECO:0000269|PubMed:15246762}.
Target
voltage-gated sodium channel (Nav)
Source & Reference
NA
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Tox-Prot
Other
Macrothele gigas (Japanese funnel web spider)
Neurotoxin
Ion channel impairing toxin
Voltage-gated sodium channel impairing toxin
Blocks voltage-gated sodium channels (Nav) (By similarity). Intracranial injection into mice causes lacrimation, slow breathing and death.
U12-hexatoxin-Mg1a (U12-HXTX-Mg1a) (Neurotoxin magi-11) (Peptide toxin 5)
spider
Neurotoxin 15 family, 01 (magi-5) subfamily
Evidence at protein level
Amidation
Disulfide bond
Ion channel impairing toxin
Knottin
Neurotoxin
Secreted
Signal
Toxin
Voltage-gated sodium channel impairing toxin
TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed by the venom gland. {ECO:0000305|PubMed:15246762}.