Snake venomics of the lesser antillean pit vipers bothrops caribbaeus and Bothrops lanceolatus: Correlation with toxicological activities and immunoreactivity of a heterologous antivenom

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4396-4408

  Gutiérrez, José María ^a   Sanz, Libia ^b   Escolano, José ^b   Fernández, Julián ^a   Lomonte, Bruno ^a   Angulo, Yamileth ^a   Rucavado, Alexandra ^a   Warrell, David A ^c   Calvete, Juan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bothrops caribbaeus; Bothrops lanceolatus; saint lucia lancehead viper; Fer de lance pitviper; Immunodepletion; Mass spectrometry; N terminal sequencing; Polyvalent (crotalinae) antivenom; Proteomics; Snake venom protein families; Snake venomics; Viperid toxins

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID OXIDASE; LECTIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; VENOM ANTISERUM; PEPTIDE; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BOTHROPS CARIBBAEUS; BOTHROPS LANCEOLATUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SNAKE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THROMBOSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MARTINIQUE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SAINT LUCIA;

BOTHROPS ATROX; BOTHROPS CARIBBAEUS; BOTHROPS LANCEOLATUS; CROTALINAE; MUS; SERPENTES; VIPERIDAE; VIPERINAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; BOTHROPS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CROTALID VENOMS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MARTINIQUE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEOME; SAINT LUCIA;

EID: 55949105234     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr8003826     Document Type: Article

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