Systematic interrogation of the Conus marmoreus venom duct transcriptome with ConoSorter reveals 158 novel conotoxins and 13 new gene superfamilies

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lavergne, Vincent ^a   Dutertre, Sébastien ^a   Jin, Ai hua ^a   Lewis, Richard J ^a   Taft, Ryan J ^a   Alewood, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cone snail; Conopeptides; ConoSorter; Conotoxins; Proteome; Transcriptome; Venomics

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONOMAP; CONOMARPHIN; CONOPEPTIDE Y; CONOPHAN; CONOPORIN; CONOPRESSIN; CONORFAMIDE; CONOTOXIN; CONOTOXIN LIKE; CONTRYPHAN; CONTULAKIN; CYSTEINE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONUS MARMOREUS; CONUS SNAIL; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CONUS MARMOREUS; GASTROPODA;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONOTOXINS; CONUS SNAIL; DATABASES, GENETIC; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTOME; VENOMS;

EID: 84885466694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-708     Document Type: Article

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