Immunology of RIPs and their Immunotoxins

Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins: An Overview

“…Ribosome-inactivating proteins have biological properties beside their glycosidase enzymatic activity which will be dealt with briefly, due to the presence of recent extensive reviews on the matters. These are immunological properties (Fracasso and Colombatti 2014) and several others are: antiviral (Krivdova et al 2014), antifungal (Krivdova et al 2014;Bertholdo Vargas and Carlini 2014), insecticidal (Bertholdo Vargas and Carlini 2014), and abortifacient (Chan et al 2014) activities.…”