Trimeresurus gracilis is an endemic alpine pitviper in Taiwan with controversial phylogeny, and its venom proteome remains unknown. In this study, we conducted a proteomic analysis of T. using high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry identified 155 toxin proteoforms that belong to 13 viperid families. By searching the sequences trypsin-digested peptides separated HPLC fra...

Enhancement of aniline hydroxylation by Habu snake venom was studied in vitro. The fraction which was isolated from Habu venom through column chromatography caused the enhancement of aniline hydroxylation of hepatic microsomes obtained from untreated rats. This fraction was heat stable and free from phospholipase activity. Enhancement of aniline hydroxylation was not clear in crude Habu venom o...

The pit membrane in the pit organ of a crotaline snake is about 15 micron thick. Myelinated nerve fibers from the trigeminal nerve enter the pit membrane and swell into palmate structures on demyelination. Demyelinated fibers repeat branchings and their terminals contain many mitochondria. The terminal portion is not surrounded with Schwann cell processes. There are many small vesicles (30-60 n...

In the present study we describe the purification and characterization of Malabarase, a serine protease from Trimeresurus malabaricus venom. Purification was achieved by gel-permeation chromatography on Sephadex G-75 followed by ion-exchange chromatography on CM Sephadex C-25. Homogeneity of Malabarase was confirmed by RP-HPLC. Malabarase is a monomer that migrated as a single protein band on S...