Evidence 1
Activity
Activity
Neurotoxin
FUNCTION: Insect-selective neurotoxin that potently blocks insect calcium-activated potassium (BKCa) channels (Slo-type) in cockroach dorsal unpaired median (DUM) neurons (IC(50)=25.3 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). In vivo, does not show toxicity in mice after intracerebroventricular injection of up to 25 pmol/g (1.8 ug/20 g mouse) (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
Insect-selective neurotoxin that potently blocks insect calcium-activated potassium (BKCa) channels (Slo-type) in cockroach dorsal unpaired median (DUM) neurons (IC(50)=25.3 nM) (PubMed:21447641). This occurs in the absence of any shifts in the voltage dependence of activation (PubMed:21447641).
Lambda-theraphotoxin-Ec2b (Lambda-TRTX-Ec2b) (Kappa-theraphotoxin-Ec2b) (Kappa-TRTX-Ec2b)
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}.