title: Purification, characterization and biological activity of an L-amino acid oxidase from Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus venom.
abstract: An L-amino acid oxidase (TM-LAO) from the venom of Hunan Trimeresurus mucrosquamatus was purified to homogeneity by three steps including DEAE Sephadex A-50 ion-exchange chromatography, Sephadex G-75 gel filtration and Resource Q ion-exchange chromatography. TM-LAO is composed of two identical subunits with a molecular weight of 55 kD by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The molecular weight was different with that of LAO purified from the same species distributed in Taiwan that was 70 kD. The 24 N-terminal amino acid sequence of TM-LAO is ADNKNPLEECFRETNYEEFLEIAR, which shares high similarity with other Viperid snake venom LAOs and has moderate similarity with Elapid snake venom LAOs. Further studies found that TM-LAO inhibited the growth of E. coli, S. aurues and B. dysenteriae. TM-LAO also showed cytotoxicity and platelet aggregation activity. All the biological activities were eliminated by catalase, a H(2)O(2) scavenger. It was shown that these biological effects were possibly due to the formation of H(2)O(2) produced by TM-LAO.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Toxicology, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.
authors.forename: Ji-Fu
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Qin
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Qiu-Min
authors.initials: QM
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tai
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Wan-Yu
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yu-Liang
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Xiong
mesh_terms: D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development; D002461:Cell Line, Transformed; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D003435:Crotalid Venoms / Q000201:enzymology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004487:Edema / Q000139:chemically induced; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D006801:Humans; D050830:L-Amino Acid Oxidase; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010974:Platelet Aggregation / Q000187:drug effects; D011817:Rabbits; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D003435:Crotalid Venoms; C029748:Trimeresurus venoms; D000594:Amino Acid Oxidoreductases; D050830:L-Amino Acid Oxidase