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Diversity of metalloproteinases in Bothrops neuwiedi snake venom transcripts: evidences for recombination between different classes of SVMPs.
BMC genetics - 1 Nov 2011
Moura-da-Silva Ana M, Furlan Maria Stella, Caporrino Maria Cristina, Grego Kathleen F, Portes-Junior José Antonio, Clissa Patrícia B, Valente Richard H, Magalhães Geraldo S
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BACKGROUND: Snake venom metalloproteinases (SVMPs) are widely distributed in snake venoms and are versatile toxins, targeting many important elements involved in hemostasis, such as basement membrane proteins, clotting proteins, platelets, endothelial and inflammatory cells. The functional diversity of SVMPs is in part due to the structural organization of different combinations of catalytic, disintegrin,...
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