Snake venomics of bothriechis nigroviridis reveals extreme variability among palm pitviper venoms: Different evolutionary solutions for the same trophic purpose

Journal of Proteome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4234-4241

  Fernández, Julián ^a   Lomonte, Bruno ^a   Sanz, Libia ^b   Angulo, Yamileth ^a   Gutiérrez, José María ^a   Calvete, Juan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOMEDICINA DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

black speckled palm pitviper; Bothriechis nigroviridis; mass spectrometry; N terminal sequencing; snake venom proteomics; venomics

Indexed keywords

5' NUCLEOTIDASE; CROTOXIN; GLYCOPEPTIDE; METALLOPROTEINASE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE TYPE C; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; SERINE PROTEINASE; SPIDER VENOM ANTISERUM; VIPER VENOM; ZINC ION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING; BOTHRIECHIS NIGROVIRIDIS; EDEMA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LD 50; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COSTA RICA; CREATINE KINASE; CROTALID VENOMS; HEMORRHAGE; LETHAL DOSE 50; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALLOPROTEASES; MICE; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIPERIDAE;

BOTHRIECHIS; BOTHRIECHIS NIGROVIRIDIS; CROTALUS DURISSUS TERRIFICUS;

EID: 77955438117     PISSN: 15353893     EISSN: 15353907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/pr100545d     Document Type: Article

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