Purification and characterization of a fibrinogenolytic and hemorrhagic metalloproteinase isolated from Vipera lebetina venom

Biochimie

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 797-805

  Hamza, Loubna ^a,b   Gargioli, Cesare ^c   Castelli, Silvia ^c   Rufini, Stefano ^c   Laraba Djebari, Fatima ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^b Institut Pasteur d'Algerie   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis inducing protease; Fibrinogenolytic enzyme; Hemorrhagic metalloproteinase; Vipera lebetina; VLH2

Indexed keywords

ACID PROTEIN; APROTININ; CALCIUM; CREATINE KINASE; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRONECTIN; GELATIN; LAMININ; METALLOPROTEINASE; N [N (3 CARBOXYOXIRANE 2 CARBONYL)LEUCYL]AGMATINE; PROTEIN VLH2; PROTEINASE; SEPHADEX; SNAKE VENOM; THROMBIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC; HEMORRHAGIC METALLOPROTEINASE; VIPER VENOM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROLYSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; MUSCLE TISSUE; MYOTUBE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SNAKE; VIPERA LEBETINA; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; TOXICITY; VIPERIDAE;

MACROVIPERA LEBETINA; VIPERIDAE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CREATINE KINASE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMORRHAGE; HYDROLYSIS; MALE; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; VIPER VENOMS; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 77953529032     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: 61831638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2010.02.025     Document Type: Article

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