Venom proteomic and venomous glands transcriptomic analysis of the Egyptian scorpion Scorpio maurus palmatus (Arachnida: Scorpionidae)

Toxicon

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 193-207

  Abdel Rahman, Mohamed A ^a   Quintero Hernandez, Veronica ^b   Possani, Lourival D ^b  

^a Suez Canal University   (Egypt)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Egypt; Proteome; Scorpio maurus palmatus; Scorpion; Transcriptome; Venomous gland

Indexed keywords

CALCINE; INSECT TOXIN LIKE PEPTIDE; LA1 LIKE PEPTIDE; NDBP 5 PROTEIN; OPISTOPORIN LIKE PEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POTASSIUM CHANNEL TOXIN; SCORPINE LIKE PEPTIDE; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POISONOUS SCORPION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SCORPIO MAURUS PALMATUS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VENOMOUS GLAND;

EGYPT; PROTEOME; SCORPIO MAURUS PALMATUS; SCORPION; TRANSCRIPTOME; VENOMOUS GLAND;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84884259051     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2013.08.064     Document Type: Article

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