Characterization of a fibrinolytic enzyme (ussurenase) from Agkistrodon blomhoffii ussurensis snake venom: Insights into the effects of Ca2+ on function and structure

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Proteins and Proteomics

Volumn 1764, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1340-1348

  Sun, Ming Zhong ^a   Liu, Shuqing ^a   Greenaway, Frederick T ^b  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium ion; Characterization; Fibrinolytic enzyme; Function; Snake venom; Structure; Ussurenase

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; GUANIDINE; METALLOPROTEINASE; MONOMER; PLASMIN; SNAKE VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; USSURENASE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DENATURATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME CONFORMATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STABILITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HYDROLYSIS; HYDROPHOBICITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SNAKE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSTABILITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AGKISTRODON; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CROTALID VENOMS; FIBRINOLYSIS; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; METALS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TEMPERATURE;

GLOYDIUS BLOMHOFFI; LONCHOCARPUS GLAUCIFOLIUS;

EID: 33747774867     PISSN: 15709639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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