Purification, characterization and cDNA cloning of two natterin-like toxins from the skin secretion of oriental catfish Plotosus lineatus

Toxicon

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 430-438

  Tamura, Saki ^a   Yamakawa, Miho ^a   Shiomi, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Natterin like toxin; Oriental catfish; Plotosus lineatus; Proteinaceous toxin; Skin secretion

Indexed keywords

FISH VENOM; PROTEINACEOUS TOXIN 1; PROTEINACEOUS TOXIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANION EXCHANGE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL FILTRATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLOTOSUS LINEATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN SECRETION; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TOXIC FISH; TOXICITY TESTING; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATFISHES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; LETHAL DOSE 50; MARINE TOXINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SKIN;

PLOTOSUS LINEATUS;

EID: 80052520729     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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