Preliminary X-ray diffraction study on haemorrhagin AaHIII from snake venom of Agkistrodon acutus

Haemorrhagins,Which cause local haemorrhage or even death after injection into exper-imental animals,exist widely in many kinds of snake venoms.Almost allthe haemorrhagins reported are zinc-metalloproteinases with highly conserved amino acid se-quences.Some of them could degrade the proteins in matrices so that they are the im-portant targets for drugs to combat diseases such as arthritis and cancer.Snake venommetalloproteinases can be divided into three classes based on their molecular weights:low