Characterization of venom components from the scorpion Androctonus crassicauda of Turkey: Peptides and genes

Toxicon

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-22

  Caliskan, Figen ^a,b   García, Blanca Ines ^b   Coronas, Fredy I V ^b   Batista, Cesar V F ^b   Zamudio, Fernando Z ^b   Possani, Lourival D ^b  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Androctonus crassicauda; Finger print analysis; Gene cloning; Ion channel; Scorpion toxin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; HETERODIMER; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PROTEIN ACRA1; PROTEIN ACRA2; SCORPION VENOM; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; SODIUM CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANDROCTONUS CRASSICAUDA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA LIBRARY; DNA PURIFICATION; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRACTIONATION; GENE; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LETHALITY; MASS SPECTROMETER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORPION; SOLUBILITY; TOXICITY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIMERIZATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE MAPPING; SCORPION VENOMS;

ANDROCTONUS CRASSICAUDA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 33746546272     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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