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Inactivation of crotoxin by group-specific reagents

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1950
Acetylation of most of the amino groups, or esterification of the carboxyl groups of crotoxin causes extensive detoxication. Sulfation of the aliphatic hydroxyl groups, or iodination of most of the phenolic groups, or coupling of these and imidazole groups of the rattlesnake neurotoxin also causes inactivation.
H, FRAENKEL-CONRAT, J, FRAENKEL-CONRAT
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Re-examination of crotoxin-membrane interactions

Toxicon, 1996
The interaction of crotoxin with synaptic membranes from Torpedo marmorata has been re-examined, using radioiodinated toxin. In competition experiments, the 'saturable binding' is usually calculated by subtracting the non-saturable binding, determined in the presence of an excess of unlabelled crotoxin, from total binding.
I, Krizaj, G, Faure, F, Gubensek, C, Bon
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Cytotoxicity of crotoxin on murine erythroleukemia cellsin vitro

Investigational New Drugs, 1993
The cytotoxic effect of crotoxin, a heterodimeric phospholipase A2 from the venom of Crotalus durissus terrificus, was examined on murine erythroleukemia cells in vitro. Crotoxin cytocidal effect on cell growth had an EC50 of approximately 0.1-0.2 microM (3.0-5.0 micrograms/ml) in serum-free medium.
Robert E Corin, J C Vidal
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Activation of crotoxin B by volvatoxin A2

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 1976
Abstract Of the two proteins making up volvatoxin, a mushroom toxin, the smaller, volvatoxin A2, of molecular weight 25,000, is able to synergistically increase the low neurotoxicity of crotoxin B, the larger basic component of the Crotalus durissus terrificus neurotoxin, crotoxin.
T W, Jeng, H, Fraenkel-Conrat
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Crotoxin

2000
Abstract Crotoxin is a dimeric polypeptide (molecular mass, 23.5 kDa) from the venom of the southern Brazilian rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus terrifi,cus) (8,11). The agent acts pre synaptically at motor nerve terminals. In isolated nerve muscle preparations, its effect on transmitter release occurs in three stages (2): An initial ...
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Preparation of a crotoxin neutralizing monoclonal antibody

Toxicon, 1988
Crotoxin is a heterodimeric protein composed of an acidic and basic subunit from the venom of Crotalus durissus terrificus and is representative of a number of presynaptically acting neurotoxins found in the venom of rattlesnakes. Four different monoclonal antibodies, typed as IgG1 subclass, were raised against the basic subunit of this toxin.
I I, Kaiser, J L, Middlebrook
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Crotoxin acceptor protein isolated from Torpedo electric organ: binding properties to crotoxin by surface plasmon resonance

Toxicon, 2003
Crotoxin, a potent neurotoxin from the South American rattlesnake Crotalus durissus terrificus, is a heterodimeric phospholipase A(2) (EC 3.1.1.4), which blocks the release of acetylcholine from peripheral neurons. We previously have suggested the existence of a 48 kDa crotoxin-binding protein in the presynaptic membranes of the electric organ of ...
Grazyna Fauré, Alenka C̆Opic̆, Franc Gubenšek   +2 more
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Recombinant expression of crotoxin and comparison to native crotoxin as immunogens for anti-crotalid antivenoms

Protein Expression and Purification
The crotoxin complex is identified as the primary lethal toxin in various species of rattlesnakes. It comprises two subunits: CtxA, a non-toxic protein, and CtxB, a minimally toxic enzymatic phospholipase A2. These components exert neurotoxic effects by disrupting neuromuscular transmission, specifically by inhibiting the release of acetylcholine ...
Miguel Angel Mejía Sánchez, Samuel Cardoso Arenas, Ricardo Miranda Blancas, Herlinda Clement, Ligia Luz Corrales García, Adrián Marcelo Franco-Vásquez, Ivan Arenas, Alejandro Carbajal Saucedo, Gerardo Corzo   +8 more
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Investigations on the mechanism of action of crotoxin.

Journal de physiologie, 1985
Crotoxin, the major toxic protein of Crotalus durissus terrificus, is composed of a basic phospholipase, component-B, and of an acidic subunit, component-A. The crotoxin complex is insensitive to an active site directed reagent, p-bromophenacyl bromide, while its isolated enzymatic component-B is rapidly and irreversibly inactivated.
F, Radvanyi, C, Bon
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Induction of tolerance to crotoxin in mice.

The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 1993
Crotoxin, the major toxic component from the venom of Crotalus durissus terrificus is a potent neurotoxin (LD50, i.p., mice, 0.09 mg/kg) which possesses phospholipase A2 activity and causes a blockade of neuromuscular transmission. In this article, we show that mice injected daily with progressively increasing doses of crotoxin develop tolerance to the
M, Okamoto, L J, Viskatis, G, de la Roza, J C, Vidal   +3 more
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