Short Toxin-like Proteins Attack the Defense Line of Innate Immunity

Short Toxin-like Proteins Attack the Defense Line of Innate Immunity

ClanTox (classifier of animal toxins) was developed for identifying toxin-like candidates from complete proteomes. Searching mammalian proteomes for short toxin-like proteins (coined TOLIPs) revealed a number of overlooked secreted short proteins with an abundance of cysteines throughout their seque...

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Main Authors: Tsiona Eliyahu, Michal Linial, Yitshak Tirosh, Dan Ofer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-07-01
Series:Toxins
Subjects:
neurotoxin
protein families
disulfide bonds
antimicrobial peptide
ion channel inhibitor
ClanTox
complete proteome
comparative proteomics
functional annotation
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/5/7/1314

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