Research papers:

1. Ghadessy, F. J., Chen, D., Kini, R. M., Chung, M. C. M., Jeyaseelan, K., Khoo, H. E. and Yuen, R.: Stonustoxin: a novel lethal factor from stonefish (Synanceja horrida) venom. cDNA cloning and characterization. J. Biol. Chem., 271, 25575-25581, 1996.

2. Chen, D. S., Kini, R. M., Yuen, R. and Khoo, H. E.: Haemolytic activity of stonustoxin from stonefish (Synanceja horrida) venom. Pore formation and the role of cationic amino acid residues. Biochem. J.325, 685-691, 1997.

3. Gong, J. P., Kini, R. M., Gwee, M. C. W., Gopalakrishnakone, P. and Chung, M. C. M.: Makatoxin I, a novel toxin isolated from the venom of scorpion Buthus martens Karsch, exhibits nitrergic actions. J. Biol. Chem., 272, 8320-8324, 1997.

4. Gong, J. P., Gwee, M. C. W., Gopalakrishnakone, P., Kini, R. M. and Chung, M. C. M.: Adrenergic and nitrergic responses of the rat isolated anococcygeus muscle to a new toxin (Makatoxin I) from the venom of the scorpion Buthus martensii Karsch. J. Autonomic Pharmacol., 17, 129-135, 1997.

5. Balaji, R. A., Sasaki, T., Gopalakrishnakone, P., Sato, K., Kini, R. M. and Bay, B. H.: Purification, structure determination and synthesis of covalitoxin-II, a short insect-specific neurotoxic peptide from the venom of the Coremiocnemis validus (Singapore tarantula). FEBS Lett.474, 208-212, 2000.

6. Balaji, R. A., Ohtake, A., Sato, K., Gopalakrishnakone, P., Kini, R. M., Seow, K. T. and Bay, B. H.: l-Conotoxins, a new family of conotoxins with unusual disulfide pattern and protein folding: Isolation and characterization from the venom of Conus mormoreus. J. Biol. Chem., 275, 39516-39522, 2000.

7. Strong, P. N., Clark, G. S., Armugam, A., De-Allie, F. A., Joseph, J. S., Yemul, V., Deshpande, J. M., Kamath, R., Gadre, S. V., Gopalakrishnakone, P., Kini, R. M., Owen, D. G. and Jeyaseelan, K.: Tamulustoxin: a novel potassium channel blocker from the venom of the Indian red scorpion Mesobuthus tamulus. Arch. Biochem. Biophys.385, 138-144, 2001.

8. Srinivasan, K.N., Nirthanan, S., Sasaki, T., Sato, K., Cheng, B., Gwee, M.C.E., Kini, R.M., and Gopalakrishnakone, P.: Functional site of bukatoxin, an α-type sodium channel neurotoxin from the chinese scorpion (Buthus martensi Karsch) venom: probable role of 52PDKVP 56 loop. FEBS Lett.494, 145-149, 2001.

9. Srinivasan, K. N., Gopalakrishnakone, P., Tan, P. T., Chew, K. C., Cheng, B., Kini, R. M., Koh, J. L. Y., Seah, S. H. and Brusic, V. SCORPION, a molecular database of scorpion toxins. Toxicon40, 23-31, 2002.

10. Srinivasan, K. N., Sivaraja, V., Huys, I., Sasaki, T., Cheng, B., Kumar, T. K. S., Sato, K., Tytgat, J., Yu, C., Brian Chia, C. S., Ranganathan, S., Bowie, J. H., Kini, R. M. and Gopalakrishnakone, P.: k-Hefutoxin1, a novel toxin from the scorpion Heterometrus fulvipes with unique structure and function: importance of the functional diad in potassium channel selectivity. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 30040-30047, 2002.

11. Pedarzani, P., D'hoedt, D., Doorty, K. B., Wadsworth, J. D. F., Joseph, J. S., Jeyaseelan, K., Kini, R. M., Gadre, S. V., Sapatnekar, S. M., Stocker, M. and Strong,P. N.: Tamapin: a venom peptide from the Indian red scorpion (Mesobuthus tamulus) which targets small conductance Ca 2+-activated K + channels and after hyperpolarization currents in central neurons. J. Biol. Chem. 277, 46101-46109, 2002.

12. Kang, T. S., Vivekanandan, S., Jois, S. D. S. and Kini, R. M.: Effect of C-terminal Amidation in Folding and Disulfide-Pairing of α-Conotoxin ImI. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 44, 6333-6337, 2005.

13. Kang, T. S., Jois, S. D. S. and Kini, R. M.: Solution structures of two structural isoforms of CMrVIA λ/χ-conotoxin. Biomacromolecules, 7, 2337-2346, 2006.

14. Kang, T. S., Radic, Z., Talley, T. T., Jois, S. D. S., Taylor, P. and Kini, R. M.: Protein folding determinants: structural features determining alternative disulfide pairing in α - and λ/χ-conotoxins. Biochemistry, 46, 3338-3355, 2007.