Molecular cloning of an epidermal growth factor-like toxin and two sodium channel toxins from the sea anemone Stichodactyla gigantea

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1652, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-106

  Honma, Tomohiro ^a   Nagai, Hiroshi ^b   Nagashima, Yuji ^a   Shiomi, Kazuo ^a  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cloning; Epidermal growth factor; Gigantoxin; Nematocyst; Sea anemone; Stichodactyla gigantea

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR LIKE TOXIN; GIGANTOXIN I; GIGANTOXIN II; GIGANTOXIN III; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SODIUM CHANNEL TOXIN; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRECURSOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEA ANEMONE; STICHODACTYLA GIGANTEA;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; MAMMALIA; STICHODACTYLA GIGANTEA;

EID: 1242306222     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2003.08.007     Document Type: Article

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