Four new postsynaptic neurotoxins from Naja naja sputatrix venom: cDNA cloning, protein expression, and phylogenetic analysis

Toxicon

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1871-1885

  Afifiyan, Fatemeh ^a   Armugam, Arunmozhiarasi ^a   Gopalakrishnakone, Ponnampalam ^a   Tan, Nget Hong ^b   Tan, Chee Hong ^a   Jeyaseelan, Kandiah ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NEUROTOXIN; SNAKE VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLONING, ORGANISM; COBRA VENOMS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, NEUROTRANSMITTER; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032402082     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00108-1     Document Type: Article

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