Interisland Evolution of Trimeresurus flavoviridis Venom Phospholipase A2 Isozymes

T Chijiwa, Y Yamaguchi, T Ogawa… - Journal of molecular …, 2003 - Springer
Trimeresurus flavoviridis snakes inhabit the southwestern islands of Japan. A
phospholipase A 2 (PLA 2), named PL-Y, was isolated from Okinawa T. flavoviridis venom …

Mechanism of in vivo anticoagulant and haemolytic activity by a neutral phospholipase A2 purified from Daboia russelii russelii venom: Correlation with clinical …

D Saikia, S Majumdar, AK Mukherjee - Toxicon, 2013 - Elsevier
A 13.0 kDa neutral phospholipase A 2 (NEUPHOLIPASE) purified from venom of Daboia
russelii russelii from eastern India was identified by peptide mass fingerprinting analysis. It …

Island specific expression of a novel [Lys49] phospholipase A2 (BPIII) in Protobothrops flavoviridis venom in Amami–Oshima, Japan

T Murakami, T Kariu, S Takazaki, S Hattori, T Chijiwa… - Toxicon, 2009 - Elsevier
In search of the transcripts expressed in Protobothrops flavoviridis venom gland, 466
expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were generated from the venom gland cDNA library of P …

Cloning and characterization of cDNAs encoding three isoforms of phospholipase A2 in Malayan spitting cobra (Naja naja sputatrix) venom

A Armugam, L Earnest, MCM Chung… - Toxicon, 1997 - Elsevier
cDNAs encoding three phospholipase A2 (PLA2) isoforms in Naja naja sputatrix were
cloned and characterized. One of them encoded an acidic PLA2 (APLA) while the others …

Heterodimeric neurotoxic phospholipases A2—The first proteins from venom of recently established species Vipera nikolskii: Implication of venom composition in viper …

AS Ramazanova, LL Zavada, VG Starkov, IV Kovyazina… - Toxicon, 2008 - Elsevier
For the first time the venom of recently established viper species Vipera nikolskii was
fractionated and two heterodimeric phospholipases A2 (HDP-1 and HDP-2) were isolated …

Phospholipase A2 diversity and polymorphism in European viper venoms: Paradoxical molecular evolution in Viperinae

VM Jan, I Guillemin, A Robbe-Vincent, V Choumet - Toxicon, 2007 - Elsevier
We report the diversity and polymorphism of phospholipase A2 (PLA2) transcripts from
snakes belonging to nine European viper subspecies. This diversity results in the …

Structural Characteristics and Evolution of a Novel Venom Phospholipase A2 Gene from Protobothrops flavoviridis

T Chijiwa, N Ikeda, H Masuda, H Hara… - Bioscience …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract A novel phospholipase A2 (PLA2) gene, named PfPLA 6, was found in a 6,328-bp
NIS-1 (5′)-a segment in the Protobothrops flavoviridis (Habu, Crotalinae) genome. A …

Group IB phospholipase A2 from Pseudonaja textilis

A Armugam, NL Gong, XJ Li, PY Siew, SC Chai… - Archives of biochemistry …, 2004 - Elsevier
Pseudonaja textilis, an Australian Elapid, is known to produce a highly toxic venom. Both
protein profiling and N-terminal sequence analysis showed the presence of four new …

The anticoagulant activity of Malayan cobra (Naja naja sputatrix) venom and venom phospholipase A2 enzymes.

NH Tan, A Arunmozhiarasi - Biochemistry International, 1989 - europepmc.org
Malayan cobra (Naja naja sputatrix) venom was found to exhibit an in vitro anticoagulant
activity that was much stronger than most common cobra (genus Naja) venoms. The most …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular Characterization of Three Novel Phospholipase A2 Proteins from the Venom of Atheris chlorechis, Atheris nitschei and Atheris squamigera

H Wang, X Chen, M Zhou, L Wang, T Chen, C Shaw - Toxins, 2016 - mdpi.com
Secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2) is known as a major component of snake venoms and
displays higher-order catalytic hydrolysis functions as well as a wide range of pathological …