Characterization of LmTxLP11 and LmVP1.1 transcripts and genomic organizations: Alternative splicing contributing to the diversity of scorpion venom peptides

Toxicon

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 129-134

  Ma, Yibao ^a   Zhao, Ruiming ^a   Li, Songryong ^a   Fan, Shaozhong ^a   Wu, Yingliang ^a   Liu, Hui ^a   Cao, Zhijian ^a   Li, Wenxin ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative poly A site and terminal exon; Alternative splicing; Diversity; EST; Scorpion venom peptides

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; POLYADENYLIC ACID; PROTEIN LMTXLP11; PROTEIN LMVP1.1; SCORPION VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

LYCHAS MUCRONATUS; METAZOA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 57749097394     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.10.025     Document Type: Article

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