Divergence of genes encoding B chains of β-bungarotoxins

Toxicon

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 322-329

  Cheng, Yun Ching ^a   Chen, Ku Chung ^a   Lin, Shu Kai ^a   Chang, Long Sen ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bungarotoxin; B chain; Genomic structure; Intron insertion or deletion; Intronic RNA transcripts. Evolutionary divergence

Indexed keywords

BETA BUNGAROTOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANIMAL TISSUE, CELLS OR CELL COMPONENTS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART; INTRON; LIVER; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKE; VENOM GLAND;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BUNGAROTOXINS; BUNGARUS; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

ANIMALIA; BUNGARUS MULTICINCTUS;

EID: 33644507730     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2005.11.009     Document Type: Article

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