A rapidly diverging superfamily of peptide toxins in venomous Gemmula species

Toxicon

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 890-897

  Heralde III, Francisco M ^a,b   Imperial, Julita ^c   Bandyopadhyay, Pradip K ^c   Olivera, Baldomero M ^c   Concepcion, Gisela P ^b   Santos, Ameurfina D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

^b University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Conoidea; Drug discovery; Exogene superfamilies; Turrids; Venom peptides

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; CYSTEINE; SNAIL VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SNAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSK VENOMS; PEPTIDES; SNAILS;

CONOIDEA; EXOGENE; GASTROPODA; GEMMULA; TURRIDAE;

EID: 40849095842     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2007.12.022     Document Type: Article

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