Snake venomics of two poorly known Hydrophiinae: Comparative proteomics of the venoms of terrestrial Toxicocalamus longissimus and marine Hydrophis cyanocinctus

Journal of Proteomics

Volumn 75, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4091-4101

  Calvete, Juan J ^a,b   Ghezellou, Parviz ^c   Paiva, Owen ^d   Matainaho, Teatulohi ^d   Ghassempour, Alireza ^c   Goudarzi, Hamidreza ^e   Kraus, Fred ^f   Sanz, Libia ^a   Williams, David J ^d,g  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

^e RAZI VACCINE AND SERUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^f BISHOP MUSEUM   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fossorial snake; Hydrophiinae venoms; Hydrophis cyanocinctus; Marine snake; Snake venomics; Toxicocalamus longissimus

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM INDEPENDENT PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; NEUROTOXIN; PROTEOME; SNAKE VENOM; THREE FINGER TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; HYDROPHIDAE; HYDROPHIS CYANOCINCTUS; LD 50; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEOMICS; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; TOXICOCALAMUS LONGISSIMUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ELAPID VENOMS; ELAPIDAE; HYDROPHID VENOMS; HYDROPHIDAE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; PROTEOME;

ELAPIDAE; HYDROPHIIDAE; HYDROPHIS CYANOCINCTUS; MUS; TOXICOCALAMUS;

EID: 84862659322     PISSN: 18743919     EISSN: 18767737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprot.2012.05.026     Document Type: Article

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