Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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EST databases
Resources for venom gland expressed sequence tags (EST)
A single interactive multi-species database is also available where users can search by keyword or cluster to view and download assemblies, contigs and ESTs. For more detailed information see the wwwPartiGene documentation at http://www.nematodes.org. Please bookmark your favourite pages.
Full access to all venom gland EST databases
Access individual venom gland EST project summary tables below (databases >1000 ESTs)
Species |
Summary Tables Link |
Citation |
| Echis ocellatus | E. ocellatus | S.C. Wagstaff and R.A Harrison Venom gland EST analysis of the saw-scaled viper, Echis ocellatus, reveals novel α9β1 integrin-binding motifs in venom metalloproteinases and a new group of putative toxins, renin-like aspartic proteases. Gene, in press (2006) |
| Bothrops insularis | B. insularis | Junqueira-de-Azevedo, I.D.M. and Ho, P.L., 2002. A survey of gene expression and diversity in the venom glands of the pitviper snake Bothrops insularis through the generation of expressed sequence tags (ESTs). Gene. 299, 279-291 (2002) |
| Deinagkistrodon acutus | D. acutus <1000ESTs | Liu, Q. H et al. A catalog for transcripts in the venom gland of the Agkistrodon acutus: Identification of the toxins potentially involved in coagulopathy, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 341 (2), 522-531 (2006) |
| Lachesis muta | L. muta | Junqueira-de-Azevedo, I. D. M. et al. Lachesis muta (Viperidae) cDNAs reveal diverging pitviper molecules and scaffolds typical of cobra (Elapidae) venoms: implications for snake venom toxin repretiore evolution. Genetics, in press (2006) |
| Sistrurus catenatus edwardsi | S. catenatus |
Pahari, S., Mackessy, S.P, and Kini, R.M. Expressed sequence tags of cDNA clones froma cDNA library of Sistrurus catenatus edwardsi, Unpublished (2006) |
If you would like to contribute ESTs to this project please contact Simon Wagstaff simonw@liv.ac.uk