Identification of BmKAPi, a novel type of scorpion venom peptide with peculiar disulfide bridge pattern from Buthus martensii Karsch

Toxicon

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1719-1722

  Zeng, Xian Chun ^b   Wang, San Xia ^a   Li, Wen Xin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

BmKAPi; Buthus martensii Karsch; cDNA; Scorpion; Toxin; Venom peptide

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTICOAGULANT PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DISULFIDE; PEPTIDE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SCORPION VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; FROG; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC STABILITY; HONEYBEE; HOOKWORM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DISULFIDES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANURA; APIS MELLIFERA; BUTHUS; MESOBUTHUS MARTENSII; RANA TEMPORARIA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 0036891362     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(02)00134-4     Document Type: Article

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