Functional characterization of Kunitz-type protease inhibitor Pr-mulgins identified from New Guinean Pseudechis australis

Toxicon

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-80

  Inagaki, Hidetoshi ^a   Kimoto, Hikari ^a   Yamauchi, Yoko ^a   Toriba, Michihisa ^b   Kubo, Tai ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b Japan Snake Institute   (Japan)

^c GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kunitz type protease inhibitor; Papuan pigmy mulga snake; Venom gland

Indexed keywords

CHYMOTRYPSIN A; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MULGIN 1; MULGIN 2; MULGIN 3; PLASMIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SODIUM CHANNEL; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDECHIS AUSTRALIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SNAKE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ELAPID VENOMS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE LIBRARY; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; RATS; REPTILIAN PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

PSEUDECHIS AUSTRALIS; RATTUS;

EID: 81255150515     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: 18793150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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