Agelotoxin: A phospholipase A2 from the venom of the neotropical social wasp cassununga (Agelaia pallipes pallipes) (Hymenoptera-Vespidae)

Toxicon

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1367-1379

  Costa, Helena ^a   Palma, Mario Sergio ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONITRILE; AGELOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECT VENOM; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; PENTAMER; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTEIN; SEPHADEX; SNAKE VENOM; SUGAR; TRIMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WASP VENOM; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ERYTHROCYTE; GEL FILTRATION; HEMOLYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PH; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; RURAL AREA; WASP;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ERYTHROCYTES; HEMOLYSIS; MICE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHOSPHOLIPASES A; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

AGELAIA; AGELAIA PALLIPES; APIS MELLIFERA; ATRA; HYMENOPTERA; NAJA ATRA; NAJA NAJA; VESPA BASALIS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0034106531     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0041-0101(99)00199-3     Document Type: Article

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