Graduate Student

Chemistry Ms

Study of complementary binding of neurotoxic peptides and transmembrane ion channel proteins. Elucidation of channel structure is sought by intimately mapping the channel surface with peptide derivatives for enrichment of knowledge involving the channel life cycle. Fluorescent toxin molecules used to supply visual aid in cell membrane and cytosol trafficking. Charybdotoxin (CTX) is one of the many peptides used to prepare toxin derivative probes. CTX belongs to a class of peptide neurotoxins found in scorpion venoms native to Egypt, Libya and Tunisia of the South. (Miller et al., 1989).

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