Structure of two genes encoding parallel prothrombin activators in Tropidechis carinatus snake: Gene duplication and recruitment of factor X gene to the venom gland

Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 117-126

  Reza, M A ^a   Swarup, S ^a   Kini, R Manjunatha ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor X; Hemostasis; Intron exon; Promoter; Prothrombin activation; Snake venom

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10; GENE PRODUCT; PROTHROMBIN; TROCARIN D;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TROPIDECHIS CARINATUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELAPID VENOMS; ELAPIDAE; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FACTOR X; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTHROMBIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33845535866     PISSN: 15387933     EISSN: 15387836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-7836.2006.02266.x     Document Type: Article

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