Editorial: From Peptide and Protein Toxins to Ion Channel Structure/Function and Drug Design

Annette Nicke; Chris Ulens; Jean-Francois Rolland; Victor I Tsetlin

doi:10.3389/fphar.2020.548366

Editorial: From Peptide and Protein Toxins to Ion Channel Structure/Function and Drug Design

Front Pharmacol. 2020 Sep 25:11:548366. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2020.548366. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Annette Nicke¹, Chris Ulens², Jean-Francois Rolland³, Victor I Tsetlin⁴

Affiliations

¹ Walther Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
² Laboratory of Structural Neurobiology, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
³ Axxam SpA, Milan, Italy.
⁴ Department of Molecular Neuroimmune Signaling, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

No abstract available

Keywords: Cys-loop receptors; Three-finger Ly6 proteins; Voltage-gated ion channels; drug design; nicotinic receptors; receptor complexes; α-conotoxins.

Publication types

Editorial