Molecular cloning and expression of a functional dermonecrotic and haemolytic factor from Loxosceles laeta venom

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 298, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 638-645

  Fernandes Pedrosa, Matheus De F ^a   Junqueira de Azevedo, Inácio De L M ^a,b   Gonçalves de Andrade, Rute M ^a   Van Den Berg, Carmen W ^c   Ramos, Celso R R ^a,b   Lee Ho, Paulo ^a,b   Tambourgi, Denise V ^a  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complement system; Dermonecrosis; Haemolysis; Loxosceles laeta; Sphingomyelinase; Spider; Venom

Indexed keywords

ANTISERUM; HEMOLYTIC AGENT; HYBRID PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SPIDER VENOM;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENVENOMATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LOXOSCELISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKIN NECROSIS; SPIDER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARACHNIDISM; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOPHORIN; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NECROSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SPIDER VENOMS; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; LOXOSCELES; LOXOSCELES INTERMEDIA; LOXOSCELES LAETA;

EID: 0036435783     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(02)02521-4     Document Type: Article

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