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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-3
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-9-10
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
We report the simultaneous presence of two phospholipase A(2) (PLA(2)) neurotoxins in the venom of Vipera aspis aspis, the first such observation. One is monomeric and identical to ammodytoxin B of Vipera ammodytes ammodytes. Its presence may result from gene flux after interbreeding between V. aspis aspis and V. ammodytes ammodytes. The second, a novel heterodimer named vaspin, is very similar to vipoxin of Vipera ammodytes meridionalis and to PLA(2)-I of Vipera aspis zinnikeri. It may result from expression of preexisting genes, the acidic subunit evolving from an ancestor common to ammodytin I2 from V. ammodytes ammodytes, which we also found in V. aspis aspis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0014-5793
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
527
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
263-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Amino Acid Substitution, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Biological Evolution, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Dimerization, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Group II Phospholipases A2, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Models, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Neurotoxins, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Phospholipases A, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Phospholipases A2, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Reptilian Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Viper Venoms, pubmed-meshheading:12220671-Viperidae
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Toxicity evolution of Vipera aspis aspis venom: identification and molecular modeling of a novel phospholipase A(2) heterodimer neurotoxin.
pubmed:affiliation
Unité des Venins, Institut Pasteur, 25 rue du Dr Roux, 75724 Cedex 15, Paris, France. vjan@pasteur.fr
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't