Evidence 1
Activity
Activity
Neurotoxin
FUNCTION: Both insecticidal and vertebrate neurotoxin that potently blocks insect calcium-activated potassium (BKCa) channels (Slo-type) in cockroach dorsal unpaired median (DUM) neurons (IC(50)=24.6 nM) (PubMed:21447641). This occurs in the absence of any shifts in the voltage dependence of activation (PubMed:21447641). May interact with the turret and/or loop region of the external entrance to the channel and does not project deeply into the pore of the channel (Probable). Also shows toxicity to mice by introcerebroventicular injection (PubMed:21447641). {ECO:0000269|PubMed:21447641, ECO:0000305|PubMed:21447641}.
Target
voltage-gated potassium channel (Kv)
Source & Reference
NA
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Tox-Prot
Other
Eucratoscelus constrictus (African red-rump baboon spider) (Harpactira constricta)
Neurotoxin
Calcium-activated potassium channel impairing toxin
Ion channel impairing toxin
Potassium channel impairing toxin
Both insecticidal and vertebrate neurotoxin that potently blocks insect calcium-activated potassium (BKCa) channels (Slo-type) in cockroach dorsal unpaired median (DUM) neurons (IC(50)=24.6 nM) (PubMed:21447641). This occurs in the absence of any shifts in the voltage dependence of activation (PubMed:21447641).
Lambda-theraphotoxin-Ec2c (Lambda-TRTX-Ec2c) (Kappa-theraphotoxin-Ec2c) (Kappa-TRTX-Ec2c)
spider
Neurotoxin 30 (phrixotoxin) family
Evidence at protein level
Calcium-activated potassium channel impairing toxin
Direct protein sequencing
Disulfide bond
Ion channel impairing toxin
Neurotoxin
Potassium channel impairing toxin
Secreted
Toxin
TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed by the venom gland. {ECO:0000305|PubMed:21447641}.