... work, wedescribe the cloning of the gene sequence of BmKIM, the functional expression of the recombinant toxin in Escheri-chia coli and its effect on the sodium channels of neurons and ventricular ... obtained was the same as the cDNA. Therefore, there is only one intron in the sequenceencoding the signal peptide. The position and structure of BmKIM intron are quite similar to that of other scorpionsodium ... Publishers, the Nether-lands.6. Couraud, F., Jover, E. & Dubois, J.M. (1982) Two types of scorpion toxin receptor sites, one related to the activation, the other to the inactivation of the action...