An anticoagulant serine protease from the wasp venom of Vespa magnifica

Toxicon

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 914-922

  Han, Junyou ^a,c   You, Dewen ^a,d   Xu, Xueqing ^a,d   Han, Wenyu ^c   Lu, Yi ^b   Lai, Ren ^a,b   Meng, Qingxiong ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (China)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant; Blood coagulation; Serine protease; Vespa magnifica; Wasp venom

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR; PROTEIN MAGNVESIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SEPHADEX; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WASP VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; GEL FILTRATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; WASP VENOMS; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; POLISTES DOMINULUS; VESPA MAGNIFICA;

EID: 40849083379     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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