## Abstract The plant cytotoxin ricin is a heterodimer with a cell surface binding (B) chain and an enzymatically active A chain (RTA) known to act as a specific __N__‐glycosidase. RTA must be separated from B chain to attack rRNA. The X‐ray structure of ricin has been solved recently; here we repo
X-ray Structure of Recombinant Ricin A-Chain at 1.8 Å Resolution
✍ Scribed by Simon A. Weston; Alec D. Tucker; David R. Thatcher; Dean J. Derbyshire; Richard A. Pauptit
- Book ID
- 115626956
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 890 KB
- Volume
- 244
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-2836
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## Abstract Ricin has been refined in a crystallographic sense to 2.5 Å resolution and the model for the A‐chain (RTA) is described in detail. Because RTA is the first member of the class of plant toxins to be analyzed, this model probably defines the major structural characteristics of the entire