Primary structure of echotoxin 2, an actinoporin-like hemolytic toxin from the salivary gland of the marine gastropod Monoplex echo

Toxicon

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 491-497

  Kawashima, Yoko ^a   Nagai, Hiroshi ^b   Ishida, Masami ^a   Nagashima, Yuji ^a   Shiomi, Kazuo ^a  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Actinoporin; Cloning; Echotoxin; Hemolysin; Marine gastropod; Monoplex echo; Primary structure; Salivary gland

Indexed keywords

ACTINOPORIN; AMINO ACID; ARGINYLGLYCYLASPARTIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ECHOTOXIN 2; HEMOLYSIN; HEMOLYTIC AGENT; MOLLUSC VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYSTEINE; MARINE TOXIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHANNEL GATING; DRUG ACTIVITY; GASTROPOD; HEMOLYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLLUSC; MONOPLEX ECHO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVARY GLAND; SEA ANEMONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ACTINIARIA; GASTROPODA; MONOPLEX ECHO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MARINE TOXINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLLUSCA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 1542496676     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(03)00226-5     Document Type: Article

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