Three-fingered RAVERs: Rapid Accumulation of Variations in Exposed Residues of snake venom toxins

Toxins

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2172-2208

  Sunagar, Kartik ^a,b   Jackson, Timothy N W ^c   Undheim, Eivind A B ^c   Ali, Syed A ^c,d   Antunes, Agostinho ^a,b   Fry, Bryan G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Focal mutagenesis; Positive selection; RAVER; Three finger toxins; Venom evolution

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; NEUROTOXIN; SNAKE VENOM; THREE FINGER TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLADISTICS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELAPIDAE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; THEORY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYSTEINE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNAKE VENOMS; SNAKES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84888155962     PISSN: 20726651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins5112172     Document Type: Article

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