A hydra with many heads: Protein and polypeptide toxins from hydra and their biological roles

Toxicon

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1148-1161

  Sher, Daniel ^a,b   Zlotkin, Eliahu ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydra; Nematocyst; Nematocyte; Pore forming; Toxin

Indexed keywords

COELENTERATE VENOM; HEMOLYSIN; NEUROTOXIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; SEROTONIN; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; ECTODERM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYSIS; IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SURVIVAL; TOXIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; HYDRA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PEPTIDES; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; PROTEINS;

HYDRA;

EID: 70350389568     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2009.02.036     Document Type: Article

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