ViTx precursor (P00845) Protein Card

General Information

Name	ViTx precursor
Organism	Conus virgo
Organism region	Indo-Pacific
Organism diet	vermivorous
Protein Type	Precursor

Classification

Conopeptide class	conotoxin
Gene superfamily	I2 superfamily
Pharmacological family

Sequence

MMFRLTSVSCFLLVIACLNLFQVVLT SRCFPPGIYCTPYLP CCWGICCGTCRNVCHLRI GKRATFQE
Sequence region	[1-26] signal sequence [27-59] mature peptide ViTx

References

Kauferstein,S., Huys,I., Kuch,U., Melaun,C., Tytgat,J. and Mebs,D. (2004) Novel conopeptides of the I-superfamily occur in several clades of cone snails Toxicon 44:539-548

Kauferstein,S., Huys,I., Lamthanh,H., Stocklin,R., Sotto,F., Menez,A., Tytgat,J. and Mebs,D. (2003) A novel conotoxin inhibiting vertebrate voltage-sensitive potassium channels Toxicon 42:43-52

Mondal,S., Vijayan,R., Shichina,K., Babu,R.M. and Ramakumar,S. (2005) I-superfamily conotoxins: sequence and structure analysis In Silico Biol. (Gedrukt) 5:557-571

Internal links

Nucleic acids	Conus virgo mRNA for toxin (viTx gene)
Structure

External links

UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot	Q7YZS9
Ncbi	Q7YZS9, CAD90965

Tools

Please cite:
Kaas Q, Yu R, Jin AH, Dutertre S and Craik DJ. ConoServer: updated content, knowledge, and discovery tools in the conopeptide database. Nucleic Acids Research (2012) 40(Database issue):D325-30
Kaas Q, Westermann JC, Halai R, Wang CK and Craik DJ. ConoServer, a database for conopeptide sequences and structures. Bioinformatics (2008) 24(3):445-6

ConoServer is managed at the Institute of Molecular Bioscience IMB, Brisbane, Australia.

The database and computational tools found on this website may be used for academic research only, provided that it is referred to ConoServer, the database of conotoxins (http://www.conoserver.org) and the above reference is cited. For any other use please contact David Craik (d.craik@imb.uq.edu.au).

Contacts:
David Craik
Quentin Kaas

Last updated: Tuesday 21 March 2023