Gowda, Raghavendra CD and Shivaprasad, HV and Kumar, Venkatesh R and Rajesh, R and Saikumari, YK and Frey, BM and Frey, FJ and Sharath, BK and Vishwanath, BS (2011) Characterization of Major Zinc Containing Myonecrotic and Procoagulant Metalloprotease `Malabarin' from Non Lethal Trimeresurus malabaricus Snake Venom with Thrombin Like Activity: Its Neutralization by Chelating Agents. In: Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, 11 (20). pp. 2578-2588.
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A major myonecrotic zinc containing metalloprotease `malabarin' with thrombin like activity was purified by the combination of gel permeation and anion exchange chromatography from T. malabaricus snake venom. MALDI-TOF analysis of malabarin indicated a molecular mass of 45.76 kDa and its N-terminal sequence was found to be Ile-Ile-Leu-Pro(Leu)-Ile-Gly-Val-Ile-Leu(Glu)-Thr-Thr. Atomic absorption spectral analysis of malabarin raveled the association of zinc metal ion. Malabarin is not lethal when injected i.p. or i.m. but causes extensive hemorrhage and degradation of muscle tissue within 24 hours. Sections of muscle tissue under light microscope revealed hemorrhage and congestion of blood vessel during initial stage followed by extensive muscle fiber necrosis with elevated levels of serum creatine kinase and lactate dehydrogenase activity. Malabarin also exhibited strong procoagulant action and its procoagulant action is due to thrombin like activity; it hydrolyzes fibrinogen to form fibrin clot. The enzyme preferentially hydrolyzes A alpha followed by B beta subunits of fibrinogen from the N-terminal region and the released products were identified as fibrinopeptide A and fibrinopeptide B by MALDI. The myonecrotic, fibrinogenolytic and subsequent procoagulant activities of malabarin was neutralized by specific metalloprotease inhibitors such as EDTA, EGTA and 1, 10-phenanthroline but not by PMSF a specific serine protease inhibitor. Since there is no antivenom available to neutralize local toxicity caused by T. malabaricus snakebite, EDTA chelation therapy may have more clinical relevance over conventional treatment.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry |
| Publisher: | Bentham Science Publishers |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Bentham Science Publishers. |
| Keywords: | Trimeresurus malabaricus;metalloprotease;myonecrosis; thrombin like activity;chelation therapy |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Feb 2012 12:29 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Feb 2012 12:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/43400 |
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