A catalog for transcripts in the venom gland of the Agkistrodon acutus: Identification of the toxins potentially involved in coagulopathy

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 341, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 522-531

  Qinghua, Liu ^a   Xiaowei, Zhang ^b,c   Wei, Yin ^a   Chenji, Li ^b   Yijun, Huang ^a   Pengxin, Qiu ^a   Xingwen, Su ^a   Songnian, Hu ^b   Guangmei, Yan ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Agkistrodon acutus; Coagulopathy; Expressed sequence tags; Toxins; Transcriptome; Venom gland

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ; CELL PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; DISINTEGRIN; LECTIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; NUCLEASE; NUCLEOTIDASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SERINE PROTEINASE; TOXIN; VENOM;

AGKISTRODON; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SNAKEBITE;

AGKISTRODON; ANIMALS; BLOOD COAGULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE LIBRARY; LECTINS, C-TYPE; METALLOPROTEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNAKE VENOMS;

AGKISTRODON; ANIMALIA; DEINAGKISTRODON ACUTUS; GLOYDIUS HALYS;

EID: 31444455234     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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