Evidence 1
Activity
Activity
Neurotoxin
FUNCTION: Inhibits sodium channels Nav1.7/SCN9A and potassium channels Kv11.1/KCNH2. Also binds the voltage-sensor domain of the potassium channel KvAP (from the archaeon Aeropyrum pernix) with very slow apparent binding kinetics and affects channel gating. Reaches its target by dynamically partitioning into anionic or zwitterionic headgroup lipid membranes. May bind to the open state of KvAP. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:15241419, ECO:0000269|PubMed:15287735, ECO:0000269|PubMed:17002285, ECO:0000269|PubMed:19955179}.
Target
voltage-gated sodium channel (Nav)
voltage-gated potassium channel (Kv)
Source & Reference
NA
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Tox-Prot
Other
Grammostola rosea (Chilean rose tarantula) (Grammostola spatulata)
Neurotoxin
Ion channel impairing toxin
Potassium channel impairing toxin
Voltage-gated potassium channel impairing toxin
Voltage-gated sodium channel impairing toxin
Inhibits sodium channels Nav1.7/SCN9A and potassium channels Kv11.1/KCNH2. Also binds the voltage-sensor domain of the potassium channel KvAP (from the archaeon Aeropyrum pernix) with very slow apparent binding kinetics and affects channel gating.
Kappa-theraphotoxin-Gr3a (Kappa-TRTX-Gr3a) (Voltage sensor toxin 1) (VsTx1)
spider
Neurotoxin 10 (Hwtx-1) family, 63 (VsTx1) subfamily
Evidence at protein level
3D-structure
Direct protein sequencing
Disulfide bond
Ion channel impairing toxin
Knottin
Neurotoxin
Potassium channel impairing toxin
Secreted
Signal
Toxin
Voltage-gated potassium channel impairing toxin
Voltage-gated sodium channel impairing toxin
TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed by the venom gland.