The venomics of bothrops alternatus is a pool of acidic proteins with predominant hemorrhagic and coagulopathic activities

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2422-2437

  Öhler, Michaela ^a   Georgieva, Dessislava ^b   Seifert, Jana ^a   Von Bergen, Martin ^a   Arni, Raghuvir K ^c   Genov, Nicolay ^d   Betzel, Christian ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

2 D electrophoresis; Bothrops alternatus; Snake venomics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID OXIDASE; BERITRACTIVASE ENZYME; DISINTEGRIN; LECTIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; PROTEIN JARARHAGIN; SERINE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SNAKE VENOM; THROMBIN; THROMBIN INHIBITOR; TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BOTHROPS ALTERNATUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SNAKE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BOTHROPS; CROTALID VENOMS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS; SERINE PROTEASES; THROMBIN;

BOTHROPS ALTERNATUS;

EID: 77952069873     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: 15353907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr901128x     Document Type: Article

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