The augertoxins: Biochemical characterization of venom components from the toxoglossate gastropod Terebra subulata

Toxicon

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 391-398

  Imperial, Julita S ^a   Watkins, Maren ^b   Chen, Ping ^a   Hillyard, David R ^b   Cruz, Lourdes J ^a,c   Olivera, Baldomero M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Conacea; Conotoxins; Disulfide rich peptides; Terebridae; Venomous mollusc

Indexed keywords

AUGERTOXIN; CONOTOXIN; CYSTEINE; POLYPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GASTROPOD; GENE SEQUENCE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; TEREBRA; TEREBRA SUBULATA; TEREBRIDAE;

EID: 0141560243     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(03)00169-7     Document Type: Article

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