Screening for post-translational modifications in conotoxins using liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry: an important component of conotoxin discovery

Toxicon

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 688-699

  Jakubowski, Jennifer A ^a   Kelley, Wayne P ^a   Sweedler, Jonathan V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conopeptide; Conus striatus; Conus victoriae; Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; Toxin; Venom

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BROMINATION; CARBOXYLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLYCOSYLATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SCREENING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSK VENOMS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CONUS STRIATUS;

EID: 33646134111     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.01.021     Document Type: Article

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