Excitement ahead: structure, function and mechanism of snake venom phospholipase A2 enzymes.

By R. Kini. Toxicon, 2003

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Non-canonical proteolytic activation of human prothrombin by subtilisin from Bacillus subtilis may shift the procoagulant–anticoagulant equilibrium toward thrombosis (2017, background): “Proteolytic conversion of ProT to meizothrombin or T can be also performed by exogenous non-physiological activators, such as serine and metallo-proteases present in snake venom (16) or secreted by bacterial cells (17–21).”
Venom Composition in Rattlesnakes: Trends and Biological Significance (2008, background): “…venoms are known to vary as a function of numerous intrinsic and extrinsic factors, many components are common to venoms of most species, and a high degree of sequence homology exists among specific components, such as the phospholipases (Kini, 1997) and small myotoxins (Mebs and Ownby, 1990).”