Serine Protease Variants Encoded by Echis ocellatus Venom Gland cDNA: Cloning and Sequencing Analysis

Table 1

Percent sequence similarity between E. ocellatus serine proteases and analogous molecules from related viper species.

Species	Accession no.	References	Serine protease	EoSP-1	EoSP-3	EoSP-7	EoSP-17
V. lebetina	CAB62591	Siigur et al. [44]	Serine proteinase	65	66	80	64
B. gabonica	AAR24534	Francischetti et al. [45]	Serine protease 1	62	63	82	65
D. acutus	AAK12273	Liang et al. [46]	Thrombin-like enzyme pre.	67	67	71	70
T. stejnegeri	AAN52350	Lee and Zhang [47]	Venom serine protease 5	66	66	65	69
T. gramineus	O13063	Deshimaru et al. [48]	Serine proteinase 3 pre.	71	71	61	76
B. jararaca	Q9PTU8	Murayama, [49]	Serine proteinase A pre.	66	68	66	74
T. gramineus	O13060	Deshimaru et al. [48]	Serine proteinase 2A pre.	65	65	73	70
B. jararacussu	AAP42416	Kashima et al. [50]	Serine protease	63	63	72	68
B. jararaca	BAA20283	Serrano et al. [51]	KN-BJ2	69	68	62	69
T. jerdonii	AAG10788	Lu et al. [52]	Serine proteinase 1 pre.	65	65	71	70
G. ussuriensis	AAL68708	Zhao et al. [53]	Thrombin-like serine protease	67	67	72	71
C. atrox	AAL77226	Tsai et al. [54]	Serine protease catroxase I pre.	66	65	63	65