Common evolution of waprin and kunitz-like toxin families in Australian venomous snakes

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 65, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 4039-4054

  St Pierre, L ^a,b   Earl, S T ^a,b   Filippovich, I ^a   Sorokina, N ^a   Masci, P P ^b   De Jersey, J ^b   Lavin, M F ^a,b  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Elapid; Gene; Kunitz like inhibitors; Toxin; Venom; Waprin

Indexed keywords

APROTININ; SNAKE VENOM; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WAPRIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POISONOUS SNAKE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELAPID VENOMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ELAPIDAE; SERPENTES;

EID: 58149129658     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-008-8573-5     Document Type: Article

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