Snake venomics and antivenomics of Bothrops colombiensis, a medically important pitviper of the Bothrops atrox-asper complex endemic to Venezuela: Contributing to its taxonomy and snakebite management

Journal of Proteomics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 227-240

  Calvete, Juan J ^a   Borges, Adolfo ^b,c   Segura, Álvaro ^d   Flores Díaz, Marietta ^d   Alape Girón, Alberto ^d   Gutiérrez, José María ^d   Diez, Nardy ^b   De Sousa, Leonardo ^e   Kiriakos, Demetrio ^e   Sánchez, Eladio ^f   Faks, José G ^b   Escolano, José ^a   Sanz, Libia ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Instituto Internacional de Estudios Avanzados IDEA   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE ORIENTE   (Venezuela)

^f FUNDAÇÃO EZEQUIEL DIAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antibothropic and anticrotalic ABC antivenom; Antivenomics; Bothrops colombiensis; Mass spectrometry; N terminal sequencing; Polyvalent (Crotalinae) ICP antivenom; Proteomics; Snake venom protein families; Snake venomics; Viperid toxins

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID OXIDASE; ANTIVENOM; ASPARTIC ACID; BRADYKININ; BRADYKININ POTENTIATING PEPTIDE; COLOMBISTATIN; DISINTEGRIN; LYSINE; METALLOPROTEINASE; PEPTIDE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CRISP; PROTEOME; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENOM ANTISERUM;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIVENOMICS; ARTICLE; BOTHROPS ASPER; BOTHROPS ATROX; BOTHROPS COLOMBIENSIS; CLADOGENESIS; COLLISIONALLY ACTIVATED DISSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; CROTALUS DURISSUS CAMANENSIS; CROTALUS SIMUS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LACHESIS STENOPHRYS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TAXONOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VENEZUELA;

ANIMALS; ANTIVENINS; BOTHROPS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CONOTOXINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; METALLOPROTEASES; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOMICS; SNAKE BITES; SNAKE VENOMS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; ZINC;

BOTHROPS; BOTHROPS ASPER; BOTHROPS ATROX; BOTHROPS COLOMBIENSIS; CROTALINAE; CROTALUS; CROTALUS DURISSUS CUMANENSIS; LACHESIS STENOPHRYS; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 60149089019     PISSN: 18743919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2009.01.005     Document Type: Article

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