Harnessing disorder: Onychophorans use highly unstructured proteins, not silks, for prey capture

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1698, 2010, Pages 3255-3263

  Haritos, Victoria S ^a   Niranjane, Ajay ^a   Weisman, Sarah ^a   Trueman, Holly E ^a   Sriskantha, Alagacone ^a   Sutherland, Tara D ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disordered proteins; Lectins; Prey capture; Proline rich proteins; Protease inhibitors; Velvet worm

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; INHIBITOR; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE; PREY CAPTURE; PROTEIN;

ARANEAE; EUPERIPATOIDES ROWELLI; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; ONYCHOPHORA;

EID: 77958122939     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0604     Document Type: Article

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