Novel venom peptides from the cone snail Conus pulicarius discovered through next-generation sequencing of its venom duct transcriptome

Marine Genomics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 43-51

  Lluisma, Arturo O ^a,b   Milash, Brett A ^a   Moore, Barry ^c   Olivera, Baldomero M ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Pradip K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b University of the Philippines Diliman   (Philippines)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conopeptide; Conotoxin; Toxin; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CONOTOXIN; PEPTIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONUS SNAIL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CONUS PULICARIUS; GASTROPODA;

EID: 84856783235     PISSN: 18747787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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