Acutolysin_A

Acutolysin A

Acutolysin A

Toxin from snake venom

Acutolysin A (also called AaH I) is a toxin found in the snake Agkistrodon acutus. It is a strongly hemorrhagic metalloproteinase. It has a molecular weight of 22 kDa.[1][2]

References

  1. [1]
    "MEROPS - the Peptidase Database". www.ebi.ac.uk.
  2. [2]
    Gong, Weimin; Zhu, Xueyong; Liu, Sijiu; Teng, Maikun; Niu, Liwen (1998). "Crystal structures of acutolysin A, a three-disulfide hemorrhagic zinc metalloproteinase from the snake venom of Agkistrodon acutus". Journal of Molecular Biology. 283 (3): 657–668. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1998.2110. PMID 9784374.
Stub icon

This enzyme-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Acutolysin_A, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.