Antiserum raised to a coral snake phospholipase A reacts to all elapidic venoms.

Proteomics Weekly | November 17, 2003 | Copyright

2003 NOV 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Coral snake venom has a phospholipase A homologue; antiserum to it reacts with all elapidic venoms.

"During the cloning of abundant cDNAs expressed in the Micrurus corallinus coral snake venom gland, several putative toxins, including a phospholipase A homologue cDNA, clone V2, were identified. The V2 cDNA clone codes for a potential coral snake toxin with a signal peptide of 27 amino acid (aa) residues plus a predicted mature protein with 119 aa residues," scientists in Brazil report.

"The deduced protein is ...

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