Isolation, characterization and crystallization of a phospholipase A2 myotoxin from the venom of the prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis viridis)

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 111-124

  Ownby, Charlotte L ^a   Colberg, Terry R ^a   White, Steven P ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SNAKE VENOM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FEMALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CROTALID VENOMS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECROSIS; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031016241     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00054-2     Document Type: Article

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