Mass Fingerprinting of the Venom and Transcriptome of Venom Gland of Scorpion Centruroides tecomanus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Valdez Velázquez, Laura L ^a   Quintero Hernández, Verónica ^b   Romero Gutiérrez, Maria Teresa ^a   Coronas, Fredy I V ^b   Possani, Lourival D ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COLIMA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEOME; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CENTRUROIDES TECOMANUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVENOMATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FINGERPRINTING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCORPION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VENOM GLAND;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; EXOCRINE GLANDS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDE MAPPING; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; PROTEOME; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CENTRUROIDES; SCORPIONES;

EID: 84879276043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066486     Document Type: Article

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