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Extraction of Venom and Venom Gland Microdissections from Spiders for Proteomic and Transcriptomic Analyses
Published on: November 3, 2014
[MALDI-mass spectrometry for identification of new proteins in snake venoms]
V V Kukhtina1, K Weise, A V Osipov
1Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Miklukho-Maklaya 16/10, GSP-7 Moscow, 117871 Russia.
Abstract:
By MALDI MS, we searched cobra venoms for new low-content polypeptides. A number of new proteins with molecular masses 7-25 kDa, characteristic of the known snake protein toxins, were identified, with the content of one of them less than 0.02%.
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