Isolation and characterization of a myotoxin from the venom of Macrovipera lebetina transmediterranea

Toxicon

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 381-390

  Hamza, Loubna ^a   Girardi, Tiziana ^b   Castelli, Silvia ^c   Gargioli, Cesare ^d   Cannata, Stefano ^c   Patamia, Maria ^e   Luly, Paolo ^c   Laraba Djebari, Fatima ^a   Petruzzelli, Raffaele ^f   Rufini, Stefano ^c  

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

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d San Raffaele Biomedical Park Foundation   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laminin; Macrovipera lebetina; Metalloproteinase; Myotoxin; Snake venom

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ; METALLOPROTEINASE; SCLEROPROTEIN; SNAKE VENOM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE BLEEDING; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMANS; MUSCLES; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; VIPER VENOMS;

MACROVIPERA LEBETINA;

EID: 77954143769     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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