The recruitment of blood coagulation factor X into snake venom gland as a toxin: The role of promoter Cis-elements in its expression

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 469-478

  Kwong, Shiyang ^a   Woods, Anthony E ^b   Mirtschin, Peter J ^b,c   Ge, Ruowen ^a   Kini, R Manjunatha ^a,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c Venom Supplies Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor X; Promoter; Prothrombin activator; Recruitment; Snake venom

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10; GENOMIC DNA; LUCIFERASE; PROTHROMBIN; SNAKE VENOM; TROCARIN D; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SNAKE; TROPIDECHIS CARINATUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FACTOR X; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTHROMBIN; SNAKE VENOMS;

EID: 70449355057     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH09-03-0162     Document Type: Article

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