Cardiotoxin III
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is orphaned as few or no other articles link to it. Please help introduce links in articles on related topics. (July 2006) |
Cardiotoxin III (CTX III, also known as cytotoxin 3) is a sixty amino-acid polypeptide toxin from the Taiwan Cobra Naja naja atra. Recent evidence has shown that CTX III may induce apoptosis in K562 cells via the release of cytochrome c . This protein belong to large family of snake venom toxins [2].