Identification and characterization of hirudin-HN, a new thrombin inhibitor, from the salivary glands of Hirudo nipponia

Transcriptome sequencing data (6.5 Gb) of the salivary glands of the haematophagous leech Hirudo nipponia was obtained by using the BGIseq-500 platform. After identification and analysis, one transcript (Unigene5370) was annotated to hirudin HV3 from Hirudo medicinalis with an e-value of 1e-29 and w...

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Main Authors: Boxing Cheng, Fei Liu, Qiaosheng Guo, Yuxi Lu, Hongzhuan Shi, Andong Ding, Chengfeng Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-09-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/7716.pdf