Miranda D M, Romano-Silva M A, Kalapothakis E, Diniz C R, Cordeiro M N, Santos T M, Prado M A, Gomez M V
Departmento de Farmacologia, ICB-UFMG, Belo Horizonte-MG, Brasil.
Neuroreport. 1998 May 11;9(7):1371-3. doi: 10.1097/00001756-199805110-00022.
Neurotoxins can help the understanding of mechanisms involved in neurotransmission. We here report that two neurotoxin isoforms, Tx3-3 and Tx3-4 obtained from the venom of the spider Phoneutria nigriventer inhibited the 45Ca2+ influx in rat cortical synaptosomes induced by the scorpion venom tityustoxin. The IC50 for Tx3-3 and Tx3-4 were 0.32 and 7.9 nM, respectively. The neurotoxins Tx3-3 and Tx3-4 are very effective in inhibiting 45Ca2+ influx and they should be useful in studies involving Ca(2+)-dependent processes.
神经毒素有助于理解神经传递所涉及的机制。我们在此报告,从黑腹捕鸟蛛毒液中获得的两种神经毒素亚型Tx3-3和Tx3-4,可抑制由蝎毒tityustoxin诱导的大鼠皮质突触体中的45Ca2+内流。Tx3-3和Tx3-4的半数抑制浓度(IC50)分别为0.32和7.9纳摩尔。神经毒素Tx3-3和Tx3-4在抑制45Ca2+内流方面非常有效,它们应有助于涉及钙(2+)依赖性过程的研究。