Evolution stings: The origin and diversification of scorpion toxin peptide scaffolds

Toxins

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2456-2487

  Sunagar, Kartik ^a,b   Undheim, Eivind A B ^c   Chan, Angelo H C ^c   Koludarov, Ivan ^c   Muñoz Gómez, Sergio A ^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 DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive evolution; Scorpion toxin scaffolds; Scorpion venom arsenal

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RYANODINE RECEPTOR; SCORPION VENOM; TRANSCRIPTOME; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALOBUTHUS XERLOMNION; CERCOPHONIUS SQUAMA; CYSTINE KNOT MOTIF; EVOLUTION; FINGER DERMATOGLYPHICS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; ISOMETROIDES VESCUS; LYCHAS BUCHARI; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORPION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; URODACUS MANICATUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SCORPION VENOMS; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84890871392     PISSN: 20726651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/toxins5122456     Document Type: Article

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