Michael Gurevitz

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Best Publications

• Functional Anatomy of Scorpion Toxins Affecting Sodium Channels

  Dalia Gordon;Philippe Savarin;Michael Gurevitz;Sophie Zinn-Justin

  229
  Citations

• Mapping the receptor site for α-scorpion toxins on a Na+ channel voltage sensor

  Jinti Wang;Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy;Roy Kahn;Dalia Gordon

  172
  Citations

• Construction of an Obligate Photoheterotrophic Mutant of the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803 Inactivation of the psbA Gene Family

  Christer Jansson;Richard J. Debus;Heinz D. Osiewacz;Michael Gurevitz

  170
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• Dynamic Diversification from a Putative Common Ancestor of Scorpion Toxins Affecting Sodium, Potassium, and Chloride Channels

  Oren Froy;Tal Sagiv;Michal Poreh;Daniel Urbach

  162
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• Identification of amino acid residues in the insect sodium channel critical for pyrethroid binding.

  Jianguo Tan;Zhiqi Liu;Ruiwu Wang;Zachary Y. Huang

  157
  Citations

• The insecticidal potential of scorpion β-toxins

  Michael Gurevitz;Izhar Karbat;Lior Cohen;Nitza Ilan

  148
  Citations

• Identification of Structural Elements of a Scorpion α-Neurotoxin Important for Receptor Site Recognition

  Noam Zilberberg;Oren Froy;Erwann Loret;Sandrine Cestele

  142
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• Functional expression and genetic alteration of an alpha scorpion neurotoxin.

  Noam Zilberberg;Dalia Gordon;Marcel Pelhate;Michael E. Adams

  135
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• The differential preference of scorpion alpha-toxins for insect or mammalian sodium channels: implications for improved insect control.

  Dalia Gordon;Izhar Karbat;Nitza Ilan;Lior Cohen

  135
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• Molecular Basis of the High Insecticidal Potency of Scorpion α-Toxins

  Izhar Karbat;Felix Frolow;Oren Froy;Nicolas Gilles

  124
  Citations

• Sea anemone toxins affecting voltage-gated sodium channels - molecular and evolutionary features.

  Yehu Moran;Dalia Gordon;Michael Gurevitz

  124
  Citations

• Arthropod and mollusk defensins – evolution by exon-shuffling

  Oren Froy;Michael Gurevitz

  120
  Citations

• Neurotoxin localization to ectodermal gland cells uncovers an alternative mechanism of venom delivery in sea anemones

  Yehu Moran;Yehu Moran;Grigory Genikhovich;Dalia Gordon;Stefanie Wienkoop

  116
  Citations

• Common Features in the Functional Surface of Scorpion β-Toxins and Elements That Confer Specificity for Insect and Mammalian Voltage-gated Sodium Channels

  Lior Cohen;Izhar Karbat;Nicolas Gilles;Nitza Ilan

  114
  Citations

• Baculovirus‐mediated expression of a scorpion depressant toxin improves the insecticidal efficacy achieved with excitatory toxins

  Eduard Gershburg;Daniel Stockholm;Oren Froy;Sharon Rashi

  113
  Citations

• The Putative Bioactive Surface of Insect-selective Scorpion Excitatory Neurotoxins

  Oren Froy;Noam Zilberberg;Dalia Gordon;Michael Turkov

  113
  Citations

• Concerted Evolution of Sea Anemone Neurotoxin Genes Is Revealed through Analysis of the Nematostella vectensis Genome

  Yehu Moran;Hagar Weinberger;James C. Sullivan;Adam M. Reitzel

  108
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• Structure-Function Map of the Receptor Site for β-Scorpion Toxins in Domain II of Voltage-gated Sodium Channels

  Joel Z. Zhang;Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy;Todd Scheuer;Izhar Karbat

  106
  Citations

• An excitatory scorpion toxin with a distinctive feature: an additional α helix at the C terminus and its implications for interaction with insect sodium channels

  Deena A Oren;Oren Froy;Efrat Amit;Nurit Kleinberger-Doron

  104
  Citations

• Solution structures of a highly insecticidal recombinant scorpion alpha-toxin and a mutant with increased activity.

  Vitali Tugarinov;Irina Kustanovich;Noam Zilberberg;Michael Gurevitz

  98
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