Recruitment of glycosyl hydrolase proteins in a cone snail venomous arsenal: Further insights into biomolecular features of Conus venoms

Marine Drugs

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 258-280

  Violette, Aude ^a   Leonardi, Adrijana ^b   Piquemal, David ^c   Terrat, Yves ^d   Biass, Daniel ^a   Dutertre, Sébastien ^a,e   Noguier, Florian ^c   Ducancel, Frédéric ^d   Stöcklin, Reto ^a   Križaj, Igor ^b   Favreau, Philippe ^a  

^a ATHERIS LABORATORIES   (Switzerland)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c Skuldtech   (France)

^d CEA SACLAY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conus venom; Glycosylation; Hyaluronidase; Proteomics; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSIDASE; HEXOSAMINE; HYALURONIC ACID; HYALURONIDASE; HYDROLASE; MESSENGER RNA; N ACETYLHEXOSAMINE; SNAIL VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONUS CONSORS; CONUS SNAIL; DISSECTION; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MARINE SNAIL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXIC SNAIL; TOXIN ANALYSIS; TOXIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

CONUS CONSORS; CONUS TULIPA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84858205449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md10020258     Document Type: Article

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