Venomic study on cone snails (Conus spp.) from South Africa

Toxicon

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 28-34

  Kauferstein, Silke ^a   Porth, Christine ^a   Kendel, Yvonne ^a   Wunder, Cora ^a   Nicke, Annette ^b   Kordis, Dusan ^c   Favreau, Philippe ^d   Koua, Dominique ^d   Stöcklin, Reto ^d   Mebs, Dietrich ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d ATHERIS LABORATORIES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conopeptide; Cone snail venom; Conus; Venomic analysis

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3BETA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4BETA2; RNA 16S; SNAIL VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMIDATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONUS SNAIL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHILIPPINES; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SOUTH AFRICA; SULFATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; NICOTINIC ANTAGONISTS; OOCYTES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; RATS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; XENOPUS;

CONUS CORONATUS; CONUS LIVIDUS; GASTROPODA; RATTUS;

EID: 78650679681     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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