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Table 1 Relative abundances of putative toxins identified in B. colombiensis venom gland transcriptome

From: Gene expression profiling of the venom gland from the Venezuelan mapanare (Bothrops colombiensis) using expressed sequence tags (ESTs)

Toxins

No. of ESTs

No. of clusters

Redundancy (clones/clusters)

% Of total

% Of total toxin transcripts

Metalloproteinase

129

10

12.9

17.7

37.5

PLA2

102

3

34.0

14.0

29.7

Serine proteinase

41

2

20.5

5.6

11.9

Waprin

19

1

19.0

2.6

5.5

C-type lectin

14

4

3.5

1.9

4.1

ATPase

10

2

5.0

1.4

2.9

CRISP

8

2

4.0

1.1

2.3

svVEGF

8

1

8.0

1.1

2.3

LAO

7

2

3.5

1.0

2.0

BPP/C-NP

3

1

3.0

0.4

0.9

Phospholipase B

2

2

1.0

0.3

0.6

Phosphodiesterase

1

1

1.0

0.1

0.3

Total

344

31

–

47.2

100.0

  1. BPP/C-NP Bradykinin-potentiating and C-type natriuretic peptide, CRISP cysteine-rich secretory protein, LAO L-amino acid oxidase, PLA 2 phospholipase A2, svVEGF snake venom vascular endothelium growth factor