Ribosome Inactivating Toxins

• मुख्य लेखक: Daniel Gillet (Ed.) (auth)
• अन्य लेखक: Julien Barbier (Ed.) (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• विषय: Medicine; toxin; Shiga toxin; ricin; Ribosome inactivating protein
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Ribosome inactivating proteins (RIPs) form a vast family of hundreds of toxins from plants, fungi, algae and bacteria. RIP activities have also been detected in animal tissues. They target a single adenine of a ribosomal RNA, thereby blocking protein synthesis and leading intoxicated cells to apopto...