- anemone toxins
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Polypeptide toxins (around 5 kD) from sea anemones (anthozoan coelenterates), most of which act on voltage-gated sodium channels. Some, however, block voltage-regulated potassium channels.
Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.
anemone toxins
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