l-amino acid oxidases are widely found in snake venoms and are thought to contribute to the toxicity upon envenomation. The mechanism of these toxic effects and whether they result …
The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers" one-stop shopping" to all biologists, biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, and informed …
LFM Izidoro, JC Sobrinho, MM Mendes… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
L‐amino acid oxidases are enzymes found in several organisms, including venoms of snakes, where they contribute to the toxicity of ophidian envenomation. Their toxicity is …
R Doley, RM Kini - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2009 - Springer
Snake venom contains mixture of bioactive proteins and polypeptides. Most of these proteins and polypeptides exist as monomers, but some of them form complexes in the …
C Guo, S Liu, Y Yao, Q Zhang, MZ Sun - Toxicon, 2012 - Elsevier
As one of the major protein (enzyme) components of snake venom (SV), l-amino acid oxidase (LAAO) plays an important role in the toxicities and biological activities for SV …
A Ullah - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Snake venom L-amino acid oxidases (SV-LAAOs) are the least studied venom enzymes. These enzymes catalyze the stereospecific oxidation of an L-amino acid to their …
Venoms from the bee Apis mellifera, the caterpillar Lonomia achelous, the spiders Lycosa sp. and Phoneutria nigriventer, the scorpions Tityus bahiensis and Tityus serrulatus, and the …
S Li, J Wang, X Zhang, Y Ren, N Wang… - Biochemical …, 2004 - portlandpress.com
Snake venom is a complex mixture of proteins and peptides, and a number of studies have described the biological properties of several venomous proteins. Nevertheless, a complete …
B Geueke, W Hummel - Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 2002 - Elsevier
The Gram-positive bacterium Rhodococcus opacus DSM 43250 produces an l-amino acid oxidase (l-AAO) with a very broad substrate specificity. This enzyme has been purified to …