Amino acid sequence of a kinin-releasing enzyme, KR-E-1, from the venom of Agkistrodon caliginosus (Kankoku-mamushi)

Toxicon

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 651-654

  Oyama, Etsuko ^a   Fukuda, Tsutomu ^a   Takahashi, Hidenobu ^a  

^a MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A. caliginosus venom; Amino acid sequence; Kinin releasing enzyme

Indexed keywords

AGKISTRODON CALIGINOSUS VENOM; AMINO ACID; ARGININE; ASPARTIC ACID; BRINASE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE C; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CYANOGEN BROMIDE; GLUCOSAMINE; HISTIDINE; HYDROXYLAMINE; KALLIKREIN; KININ; KININ RELEASING ENZYME 1; LYSINE; PHENYLALANINE; PROTEINASE; SERINE; SNAKE VENOM; THROMBIN; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACHROMOBACTER; AGKISTRODON CALIGINOSUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYST; ENZYME GLYCOSYLATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKE;

AGKISTRODON; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRADYKININ; CROTALID VENOMS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

ACHROMOBACTER; BOVINAE; GLOYDIUS BLOMHOFFI; GLOYDIUS USSURIENSIS; HUMAN ECHOVIRUS 1;

EID: 52049111223     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2008.07.014     Document Type: Article

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