The first structure of a sea anemone potassium channel toxin reveals how a novel structural scaffold can be used to present key functional groups for channel blockade.
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Tudor, J., Pallaghy, P., Pennington, M. et al. Solution structure of ShK toxin, a novel potassium channel inhibitor from a sea anemone. Nat Struct Mol Biol 3, 317–320 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb0496-317
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