A multigene family of Heteractis magnificalysins (HMgs)

Toxicon

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1374-1382

  Wang, Yawen ^a   Yap, Lai Lai ^a   Chua, Kim Lee ^a   Khoo, Hoon Eng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cytolysin; Isoform; Multigene; Recombinant protein

Indexed keywords

CYTOLYSIN; MAGNIFICALYSIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA ANEMONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; CYTOTOXINS; DNA; ERYTHROCYTES; GENOME; HEMOLYTIC AGENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLUBILITY;

ACTINIARIA; HETERACTIS (ANTHOZOAN); HETERACTIS MAGNIFICA;

EID: 44649084221     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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