Endosomal escape pathways for delivery of biologicals

AK Varkouhi, M Scholte, G Storm, HJ Haisma - Journal of Controlled …, 2011 - Elsevier
Despite continuous improvements in delivery systems, the development of methods for
efficient and specific delivery of targeted therapeutic agents still remains an issue in …

Strategies in the design of endosomolytic agents for facilitating endosomal escape in nanoparticles

A Ahmad, JM Khan, S Haque - Biochimie, 2019 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles (NPs) are one of the leading and promising technologies for gene and drug
delivery. However, despite continuous advancements in the delivery of NPs, endosomal …

An exosome-based secretion pathway is responsible for protein export from Leishmania and communication with macrophages

JM Silverman, J Clos, CC de'Oliveira… - Journal of cell …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
Specialized secretion systems are used by numerous bacterial pathogens to export
virulence factors into host target cells. Leishmania and other eukaryotic intracellular …

Ribosome-inactivating proteins: current status and biomedical applications

M Puri, I Kaur, MA Perugini, RC Gupta - Drug discovery today, 2012 - Elsevier
Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are mainly present in plants and function to inhibit
protein synthesis through the removal of adenine residues from eukaryotic ribosomal RNA …

Ribosome-inactivating proteins: Potent poisons and molecular tools

MJ Walsh, JE Dodd, GM Hautbergue - Virulence, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) were first isolated over a century ago and have been
shown to be catalytic toxins that irreversibly inactivate protein synthesis. Elucidation of …

[HTML][HTML] Ribosome-inactivating proteins: from plant defense to tumor attack

M de Virgilio, A Lombardi, R Caliandro, MS Fabbrini - Toxins, 2010 - mdpi.com
Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are EC3. 2.32. 22 N-glycosidases that recognize a
universally conserved stem-loop structure in 23S/25S/28S rRNA, depurinating a single …

[HTML][HTML] Toxin-based therapeutic approaches

A Shapira, I Benhar - Toxins, 2010 - mdpi.com
Protein toxins confer a defense against predation/grazing or a superior pathogenic
competence upon the producing organism. Such toxins have been perfected through …

[HTML][HTML] Saporin-S6: a useful tool in cancer therapy

L Polito, M Bortolotti, D Mercatelli, MG Battelli… - Toxins, 2013 - mdpi.com
Thirty years ago, the type 1 ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) saporin-S6 (also known as
saporin) was isolated from Saponaria officinalis L. seeds. Since then, the properties and …

Immunotoxins constructed with ribosome-inactivating proteins and their enhancers: a lethal cocktail with tumor specific efficacy

R Gilabert-Oriol, A Weng… - Current …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
The term ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) is used to denominate proteins mostly of plant
origin, which have N-glycosidase enzymatic activity leading to a complete destruction of the …

[HTML][HTML] Plant ribosome-inactivating proteins: Progesses, challenges and biotechnological applications (and a few digressions)

MS Fabbrini, M Katayama, I Nakase, R Vago - Toxins, 2017 - mdpi.com
Plant ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) toxins are EC3. 2.2. 22 N-glycosidases, found
among most plant species encoded as small gene families, distributed in several tissues …