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Improvement of the Pharmacological Properties of Maize RIP by Cysteine-Specific PEGylation.
Toxins - 17 Oct 2016
Au Ka-Yee, Shi Wei-Wei, Qian Shuai, Zuo Zhong, Shaw Pang-Chui
Abstract excerpt
To improve the pharmacological properties of maize ribosome-inactivating protein (maize RIP) for targeting HIV-infected cells, the previously engineered TAT-fused active form of maize RIP (MOD) was further engineered for cysteine-directed PEGylation. In this work, two potential antigenic sites, namely Lys-78 and Lys-264, were identified. They were mutated to cysteine residue and conjugated with PEG5k or PEG20k....
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