The gene cloning and sequencing of Bm-12, a Chlorotoxin-like peptide from the scorpion Buthus martensi Karsch

Toxicon

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 661-668

  Wu, Jing Jiang ^a   Dai, Li ^a,b   Lan, Zheng Dao ^a   Chi, Cheng Wu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; NEUROTOXIN; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SCORPION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BUTHUS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MESOBUTHUS MARTENSII; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0033988543     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(99)00181-6     Document Type: Article

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