Chunmei Guo, Shuqing Liu, Tihua Zheng, Ming-Zhong Sun 1 Department of Biotechnology, Department of Biochemistry, Dalian Medical University, Dalian 116044, China
The snake of Gloydius shedaoensis shedaoensis (GSS) is the particular and sole snake species from Shedao island in Dalian, China. A novel gene named as GSSG-TLE was cloned from GSSG by PCR using GSSG-cDNA library plasmid as template. The GSSG-TLE cDNA was sequenced and encompasses an open reading frame of 786 bp in length and encoding a protein of 262 amino acid residues. The GSSG-TLE gene has a base composition of 14 Ala, 12 Cys, 14 Asp, 13 Glu, 10 Phe, 19 Gly, 7 His, 20 Ile, 15 Lys, 25 Leu, 4 Met, 12 Asn, 19 Pro, 7 Gln, 12 Arg, 20 Ser, 14 Thr, 13 Val, 5 Trp and 7 Tyr. GSSG-TLE includes a signal peptide of 18 amino acids, a proposed propeptide of 6 amino acids and a matured peptide of 238 amino acids. It also contains 12 Cys which form 6 disulfide bridges and has three conserved catalytically active sites of His67, Asp112 and Ser202. Sequence comparison revealed that GSSG-TLE amino acids sequence shared highly identity with other snake venom thrombin-like enzymes.
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