The first report on transcriptome analysis of the venom gland of Iranian scorpion, Hemiscorpius lepturus

• Published in: Toxicon (Oxford) Vol. 125; pp. 123 - 130
• Main Authors: Kazemi-Lomedasht, Fatemeh, Khalaj, Vahid, Bagheri, Kamran Pooshang, Behdani, Mahdi, Shahbazzadeh, Delavar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2017
• Subjects: allergens; Animals; antimicrobial peptides; Arthropod Proteins - chemistry; bioactive compounds; calcium channels; Computational Biology; Gene Expression Profiling; health services; Hemiscorpius lepturus; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; Iran; Iranian scorpion; Iraq; metalloproteinases; nucleotide sequences; phospholipases; potassium channels; RNAseq; Scorpion Venoms - chemistry; Scorpiones; Scorpions - metabolism; Sequence Analysis, RNA; toxins; Transcriptome; Transcriptome analysis; transcriptomics; venoms; Yemen; Iran; Iraq; Yemen; Hemiscorpius lepturus; Transcriptome analysis; Iranian scorpion; RNAseq

Hemiscorpius lepturus scorpion is one of the most venomous members of the Hemiscorpiidae family. H. lepturus is distributed in Iran, Iraq and Yemen. The prevalence and severity of scorpionism is high and health services are not able to control it. Scorpionism in Iran especially in the southern regio...