The venom gland transcriptome of the Desert Massasauga Rattlesnake (Sistrurus catenatus edwardsii): Towards an understanding of venom composition among advanced snakes (Superfamily Colubroidea)

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Pahari, Susanta ^a   Mackessy, Stephen P ^b   Kini, R Manjunatha ^c,d  

^a JAIN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID OXIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DISINTEGRIN; GROWTH FACTOR; METALLOPROTEINASE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE TYPE C; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; RIBOSOME RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; TRANSCRIPTOME; ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; ENVENOMATION; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC CODE; HEMOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SISTRURUS CATENATUS EDWARDSII; SNAKE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DESERT CLIMATE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

COLUBROIDEA; ELAPIDAE; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; SISTRURUS CATENATUS EDWARDSI; SISTRURUS CATENATUS EDWARDSII; VIPERIDAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CROTALUS; DESERT CLIMATE; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SNAKE VENOMS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 39149132815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-8-115     Document Type: Article

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