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Yulu Tang1, Miao Huang2, Qiping Hu1
1Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, School of Pre-clinical Medicine, Guangxi Medical University, 22 Shuangyong Road, Nanning, 530021, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Blood clots produced by snake-venom thrombin-like enzymes (SVTLEs) are cleared rapidly, which makes SVTLEs attractive as potential candidates for antithrombotic therapy. We isolated a SVTLE, agkihpin, from the venom of Gloydius halys Pallas. Agkihpin was confirmed to a single-chain TLE with molecular mass of 25.5 kD, pI of 7.43, optimal pH of 8.0 (hydrolyzing TAME), linked carbohydrate absent, and weak fibrinogen clotting activity. It was also found that (i) G. halys might be the latest species in SVTLEs phylogenetic tree; (ii) different level of conservation was shown among the SVTLEs from the Viperidae snakes. Some of those site may account for different activities exhibited by those SVTLEs, especially position 181, at which a fibrinogenolytic activity increase was found when a basic and larger amino acid substituted by a neutral and smaller one; (iii) an extra α-helix constructed with a 'Pro + acidic amino acid + aromatic amino acid' pattern was found in the SVTLEs from Gloydius and Agkistrodon snakes, although it does not necessarily imply an effect on the fibrinogenolytic activity of the SVTLEs. This study provided some new insight into the activity of SVTLE.
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