Novel O-superfamily conotoxins identified by cDNA cloning from three vermivorous Conus species

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 256-265

  Zhangsun, Dongting ^a   Luo, Sulan ^a   Wu, Yong ^a   Zhu, Xiaopeng ^a   Hu, Yuanyan ^a   Xie, Lei ^a  

^a HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; Conus betulinus; Conus caracteristicus; Conus lividus; O superfamily conotoxins; Sequence diversity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONOTOXIN; CYSTEINE; ION CHANNEL; O SUPERFAMILY CONOTOXIN; PEPTIDE; VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CODON; CONUS BETULINUS; CONUS CHARACTERISTICUS; CONUS LIVIDUS; CONUS SNAIL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONOTOXINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CONUS SNAIL; CYSTEINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CONUS BETULINUS; CONUS CARACTERISTICUS; CONUS LIVIDUS;

EID: 33845515677     PISSN: 17470277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0285.2006.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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