Bacterial production of tetrodotoxin in the pufferfish Arothron hispidus

Natural Product Research

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1630-1640

  Campbell, S ^a   Harada, R M ^a   Defelice, S V ^a   Bienfang, P K ^a   Li, Q X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Fish toxins; Marine toxins; Pufferfish; Tetrodotoxin; Vibrio

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOASSAY; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; KIDNEY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MARINE BACTERIUM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PUFFER FISH; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; KIDNEY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUCUS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SKIN; TETRAODONTIFORMES; TETRODOTOXIN; VIBRIO;

AROTHRON HISPIDUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIODON; TETRAODONTIDAE; VIBRIO; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 70449372651     PISSN: 14786419     EISSN: 14786427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14786410903003780     Document Type: Article

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