Venom from the centipede Scolopendra viridis Say: Purification, gene cloning and phylogenetic analysis of a phospholipase A2

Toxicon

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-15

  González Morales, Lidia ^a,b   Diego García, Elia ^b   Segovia, Lorenzo ^b   Carmen Gutiérrez, Maria del ^a   Possani, Lourival D ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DEL ESTADO DE MORELOS   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Phospholipase A2; Phylogenetic analysis; Scolopendra viridis Say

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARACHNID; ARTICLE; CENTIPEDE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DEGRADATION; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INSECT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOL GENE; SCOLOPENDRA VIRIDIS SAY; SNAKE; SPECIES; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VENOMS; ARTHROPODS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; CHILOPODA; HEXAPODA; SCOLOPENDRA VIRIDIS;

EID: 67349220716     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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