Chemical punch packed in venoms makes centipedes excellent predators

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 640-650

  Yang, Shilong ^a,e   Liu, Zhonghua ^b   Xiao, Yao ^a,e   Li, Yuan ^a   Rong, Mingqiang ^a   Liang, Songping ^b   Zhang, Zhiye ^a,e   Yu, Haining ^d   King, Glenn F ^c   Lai, Ren ^a,f  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d HEBEI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^f NONE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD VENOM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DISULFIDE; NEUROTOXIN; PEPTIDE; SCORPION VENOM; SEA ANEMONE TOXIN; SNAKE VENOM; SPIDER VENOM; TRANSCRIPTOME; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CENTIPEDE; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL FILTRATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ACTINIARIA; ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CHILOPODA; GASTROPODA; SCOLOPENDRA SUBSPINIPES; SCORPIONES; SERPENTES;

EID: 84865708220     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M112.018853     Document Type: Article

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