1LQH: Insect toxin alpha

Insecticidal alpha scorpion toxin isolated from the venom of scorpion leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus, NMR, minimized average structure. Determined by solution NMR. Released 12 Mar 1997.

Method
Solution NMR
Organism
Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus
Chains
1
Atoms
513
Mol. weight
7.4 kDa
Released
12 Mar 1997

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Secondary structure: helices and β-sheets

1LQH contains 1 α-helix and 5 β-strands across 1 chain. Residue ranges use author residue numbering, as in the PDB file, from PDBe. To see them in 3D, choose the Cartoon representation with Secondary structure coloring: helices, sheets and coils get different colors.

Chain A: 1 helix, 5 β-strands

ElementResiduesLengthSheet
β-strand3-641
β-strand712
α-helix20-3011
β-strand34-3851
β-strand46-5271
β-strand5812

Molecules and chains

MoleculeChainsTypeLengthOrganismUniProt
Insect toxin alphaAprotein65Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeusP17728 (AlphaFold model)
Sequence of entity 1 (A), FASTA
>1LQH_1 INSECT TOXIN ALPHA (chains A)
MVRDAYIAKNYNCVYECFRDAYCNELCTKNGASSGYCQWAGKYGNACWCYALPDNVPIRV
PGKCR

Primary citation

Solution structures of a highly insecticidal recombinant scorpion alpha-toxin and a mutant with increased activity. Tugarinov, V., Kustanovich, I., Zilberberg, N. et al. Biochemistry (1997) 36:2414-2424. DOI 10.1021/bi961497l · PubMed

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