Purification and properties of a coagulant thrombin-like enzyme from the venom of Bothrops leucurus

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 565-575

  Magalhães, Arinos ^a   Magalhães, Henrique P B ^b   Richardson, Michael ^a   Gontijo, Silea ^a   Ferreira, Rodrigo N ^a,b   Almeida, Alvair P ^b   Sanchez, Eladio F ^a  

^a FUNDAÇÃO EZEQUIEL DIAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antithrombotic; Bothrops leucurus; Clotting enzymes; Fibrinogen; Leucurobin; Serine proteinases; Snake venoms; Thrombin like enzymes

Indexed keywords

BENZAMIDINE; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 13; EDETIC ACID; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOPEPTIDE A; FIBRINOPEPTIDE B; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOSIDASE; KININ DERIVATIVE; LEUCUROBIN; MERCAPTOETHANOL; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; SOYBEAN TRYPSIN INHIBITOR; THROMBIN; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BOTHROPS LEUCURUS; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; DEGLYCOSYLATION; DISULFIDE BOND; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GEL FILTRATION; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; ION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SNAKE;

BOTHROPS LEUCURUS; BOVINAE; MUS;

EID: 33847369510     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2005.12.033     Document Type: Article

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