Proteolytic specificity of rhodostoxin, the major hemorrhagin of Calloselasma rhodostoma (Malayan pit viper) venom

Toxicon

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 979-984

  Tan, Nget Hong ^a   Ponnudurai, Gnanajothy ^a   Chung, Maxey C M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOXIN; VIPER VENOM;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; DEGLYCOSYLATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CROTALID VENOMS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEMORRHAGE; HYDROLYSIS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BOVINAE; CALLOSELASMA RHODOSTOMA; CROTALINAE; VIPER;

EID: 0031172516     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(96)00186-9     Document Type: Article

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