| biochemical and biological activities of the venom of the chinese pitviper zhaoermia mangshanensis, with the complete amino acid sequence and phylogenetic analysis of a novel arg49 phospholipase a2 myotoxin. | zhaoermia mangshanensis (formerly trimeresurus mangshanensis, ermia mangshanensis) represents a monotypic genus of pitviper known only from mt mang in china's hunan province, and is among the largest and most spectacular of asian venomous snakes. the venom of zhaoermia exhibits high coagulant activity on bovine and human fibrinogen and human plasma, high phosphodiesterase and arginine ester hydrolytic activity, and moderate to low l-amino acid oxidase, kallikrein, caseinolytic, phospholipase a(2 ... | 2006 | 16635500 |
| mitochondrial genome of protobothrops mangshanensis (squamata: viperidae: crotalinae). | protobothrops mangshanensis is a venomous pit viper species endemic to hunan province in china. in this study, the complete mitochondrial genome of p. mangshanensis had been determined. the circle genome with the 17,230 bp total length contained 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer rna genes, 2 ribosomal rna genes and 2 control regions. overall base composition of the complete mtdna was 32.27% a, 24.16% t, 30.34% c and 13.23% g. all the genes in p. mangshanensis were distributed on the h-strand, ... | 2014 | 23808922 |