Amino acid sequence studies on cytolytic toxins from sea anemone Heteractis magnifica, Entacmaea quadricolor and Stichodactyla mertensii (Anthozoa)

Toxicon

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 259-264

  Samejima, Y ^a   Yanagisawa, M ^a   Aoki Tomomatsu, Y ^a   Iwasaki, E ^a   Ando, J ^a   Mebs, D ^b  

^a HOSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLYSIN; SEA ANEMONE TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA ANEMONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANTHOZOA; ENTACMAEA QUADRICOLOR; HETERACTIS MAGNIFICA; STICHODACTYLA MERTENSII;

EID: 0033990713     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(99)00154-3     Document Type: Article

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