Molecular characterization on the genome structure of hemolysin toxin isoforms isolated from sea anemone Actineria villosa and Phyllodiscus semoni

Toxicon

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1470-1476

  Uechi, Gen Ichiro ^a   Toma, Hiromu ^b   Arakawa, Takeshi ^b   Sato, Yoshiya ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actineria villosa; Actinoporin; Hemolysin; Intron; Isoform; Multigene; Phyllodiscus semoni; Sea anemone

Indexed keywords

ACTINOPORIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; ENDONUCLEASE HPHI; GENOMIC DNA; HEMOLYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACTINERIA VILLOSA; ARTICLE; AVT II GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME SIZE; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLLODISCUS SEMONI; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PST I GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEA ANEMONE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CNIDARIAN VENOMS; GENOME; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINERIA VILLOSA; ACTINIARIA; PHYLLODISCUS SEMONI;

EID: 77958508102     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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