Diversity of the O-superfamily conotoxins from Conus miles

Journal of Peptide Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-53

  Luo, Sulan ^a,b   Zhangsun, Dongting ^a,b   Feng, Jiancheng ^a,b   Wu, Yong ^a,b   Zhu, Xiaopeng ^a,b   Hu, Yuanyan ^a,b  

^a Key Laboratory for Tropical Biological Resources   (China)

^b HAINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; Conus miles native to Hainan; O superfamily conotoxins; Sequence diversity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONOTOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CONUS SNAIL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

CONUS MILES; GASTROPODA;

EID: 33846675617     PISSN: 10752617     EISSN: 10991387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psc.802     Document Type: Article

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