Dermatoxin and phylloxin from the waxy monkey frog, Phyllomedusa sauvagei: Cloning of precursor cDNAs and structural characterization from lyophilized skin secretion

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 103-108

  Chen, Tianbao ^a   Walker, Brian ^a   Zhou, Mei ^a   Shaw, Chris ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cDNA; Mass spectroscopy; Peptide; Phyllomedusinae; Venom

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DERMATOXIN; PHYLLOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STRUCTURE; FEMALE; FREEZE DRYING; FROG; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLLOMEDUSA BICOLOR; PHYLLOMEDUSA SAUVAGEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SKIN SECRETION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIAN PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DERMOTOXINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; RANIDAE; SKIN;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; PHYLLOMEDUSA BICOLOR; PHYLLOMEDUSA SAUVAGEI; PHYLLOMEDUSINAE;

EID: 20144370441     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.regpep.2005.01.017     Document Type: Article

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