title: Amino acid sequence of a thrombin like enzyme, elegaxobin, from the venom of Trimeresurus elegans (Sakishima-habu).
abstract: The amino acid sequence of a thrombin like enzyme, named elegaxobin, isolated from the venom of Trimeresurus elegans (Sakishima-habu) was determined by Edman sequencing of the peptides, derived from digests with cyanogen bromide, hydroxylamine, achromobacter protease I, trypsin, V8 protease, and chymotrypsin. Elegaxobin showed conservation of the catalytic amino acid residues (His, Asp, and Ser) of trypsin like serine protease in the amino acid sequence. The carboxy-terminal amino acid, Leu, was determined using carboxypeptidase Y. Elegaxobin consisted of 233 amino acids and had a calculated molecular weight of 25,439. Elegaxobin was 53, 59, 26 and 40% homologous in sequence to ancrod, flavoxobin, bovine thrombin and trypsin, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hygienic Chemistry, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo 204-8588, Japan.
authors.forename: Etsuko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Oyama
authors.forename: Hidenobu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takahashi
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D003435:Crotalid Venoms / Q000737:chemistry*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification; D013045:Species Specificity; D017841:Trimeresurus
chemical_list: D003435:Crotalid Venoms; C029748:Trimeresurus venoms; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases; C408443:elegaxobin