Snake venomics of Central American pitvipers: Clues for rationalizing the distinct envenomation profiles of Atropoides nummifer and Atropoides picadoi

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 708-719

  Angulo, Yamileth ^a   Escolano, José ^b   Lomonte, Bruno ^a   Gutiérrez, José María ^a   Sanz, Libia ^b   Calvete, Juan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atropoides mexicanus; Atropoides nummifer; Atropoides picadoi; Bitis caudalis; Jumping pitviper; Mass spectrometry; N terminal sequencing; Picadoi's pitviper; Proteomics; Snake venom protein families; Snake venomics; Three finger toxin; Viperid toxins

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID OXIDASE; DECTIN 1; DISINTEGRIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SERINE PROTEINASE; VASCULOTROPIN; VIPER VENOM; ZINC;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ATROPOIDES MUMMIFER; ATROPOIDES PICADOI; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVENOMATION; FRACTIONATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEOMICS; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SNAKE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COSTA RICA; CROTALID VENOMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOMICS; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; VIPERIDAE;

ATROPOIDES; ATROPOIDES NUMMIFER; ATROPOIDES PICADOI; BITIS CAUDALIS; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 39749157183     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr700610z     Document Type: Article

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