Evolutionary analysis of novel serine proteases in the Venom Gland transcriptome of Bitis gabonica rhinoceros

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Vaiyapuri, Sakthivel ^a   Wagstaff, Simon C ^b   Harrison, Robert A ^b   Gibbins, Jonathan M ^a,c   Hutchinson, E Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RHINOCERASE 2; RHINOCERASE 3; RHINOCERASE 4; RHINOCERASE 5; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIPER VENOM;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BITIS GABONICA; CATALYSIS; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL ANATOMY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BITIS GABONICA; RHINOCEROS; VIPERINAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; VIPER VENOMS; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 79959575311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021532     Document Type: Article

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