Three toxins with phospholipase activity isolated from the yellow-legged hornet (Vespa verutina) venom

Toxicon

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1015-1024

  Ho, Chewn Lang ^a   Lin, Yah Luen ^a   Li, Shu Fen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID DERIVATIVE; INSECT VENOM; LYSOPHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PHOSPHOLIPID; SPHINGOMYELIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VERUTOXIN 1; VERUTOXIN 2A; VERUTOXIN 2B;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ISOLATION; HEMOLYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; LETHALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOXIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, ION EXCHANGE; FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HEMOLYSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASES; WASP VENOMS;

ANIMALIA; VESPA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0032924691     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(98)00229-3     Document Type: Article

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