Remarkable inter- and intra-species complexity of conotoxins revealed by LC/MS

Peptides

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1222-1227

  Davis, Jasmine ^a   Jones, Alun ^a   Lewis, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cone snail; Conotoxin; Mass spectrometry; Venom peptide; Venomics

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; SNAIL VENOM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONUS SNAIL; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SCORPION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

ARANEAE; CONUS TEXTILE; GASTROPODA; SCORPIONES;

EID: 67349175001     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2009.03.019     Document Type: Article

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