[Identification of toxic components from the venom of Cerastes cerastes and Vipera lebetina vipers; purification of phospholipases]

A Gasmi; H Karoui; L el Afrit; M el Ayeb

[Identification of toxic components from the venom of Cerastes cerastes and Vipera lebetina vipers; purification of phospholipases]

Arch Inst Pasteur Tunis. 1988 Jan-Apr;65(1-2):43-52.

[Article in French]

Authors

A Gasmi¹, H Karoui, L el Afrit, M el Ayeb

Affiliation

¹ Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Service d'Immunologie, Tunis-Belvédère, Tunisie.

PMID: 2845874

Abstract

Cerastes cerastes and Vipera lebetina venoms have been fractionated and the different components analysed by electrophoresis on polyacrylamid gels. Phospholipases A2 contained in these two venoms have been purified and their electrophoretic properties compared.

MeSH terms

Animals
Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
Phospholipases / isolation & purification*
Phospholipases A / isolation & purification*
Viper Venoms / analysis*

Substances

Viper Venoms
Phospholipases
Phospholipases A