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How Ricin Damages the Ribosome

Ricin belongs to the group of ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs), i.e., toxins that have evolved to provide particular species with an advantage over other competitors in nature. Ricin possesses RNA N-glycosidase activity enabling the toxin to eliminate a single adenine base from the sarcin-ricin...

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Autores principales: Grela, Przemysław, Szajwaj, Monika, Horbowicz-Drożdżal, Patrycja, Tchórzewski, Marek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6562825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31035546
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins11050241