Isolation and characterization of a novel postsynaptic/cytotoxic neurotoxin from Daboia russelli russelli venom

Journal of Peptide Research

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 257-263

  Shelke, R R J ^a   Sathish, S ^b   Gowda, T V ^b  

^a Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

Author keywords

Alpha; Cytotoxins; Daboia russelli russelli; Neurotoxins; Viperidae

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN; VIPER VENOM; SNAKE VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FROG; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LD 50; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE; SNAKE; SYNAPSE; TOXICITY TESTING; CYTOTOXICITY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LETHAL DOSE 50; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; NEUROTOXINS; RANIDAE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SYNAPSES; TOXICITY TESTS; VIPER VENOMS; VIPERIDAE; ANIMAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

ANURA; DABOIA; DABOIA RUSSELLII RUSSELLII; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 0036001486     PISSN: 1397002X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3011.2002.02969.x     Document Type: Article

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