Identification and molecular cloning of insecticidal toxins from the venom of the brown spider Loxosceles intermedia

Toxicon

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 273-280

  De Castro, Cibele Soares ^a,b   Silvestre, Flávia Galindo ^a   Araújo, Simone Costa ^a   Yazbeck, Gabriel De Menezes ^a   Mangili, Oldemir C ^c   Cruz, Ivan ^d   Chávez Olórtegui, Carlos ^a   Kalapothakis, Evanguedes ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b CEP 35400000   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^d EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

BLAST, basic local alignment search tool; cDNA; ExPASy, the expert protein analysis system; HPLC, high performance liquid chromatography; Insecticidal toxins; LiTx 1; LiTx 2; LiTx 3; Loxosceles intermedia; Spider; Toxin; Venom

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECTICIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PEPTIDE; SPIDER VENOM; TOXIN; VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL FILTRATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION; SPIDER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PEPTIDES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; INSECTA; LOXOSCELES; LOXOSCELES INTERMEDIA; SPODOPTERA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 4043119758     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2004.05.028     Document Type: Article

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