Purification and biochemical characterisation of ricin from castor seeds

Defence Science Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 345-351

  Kumar, Om ^a   Nashikkar, A B ^a   Jayaraj, R ^a   Vijayaraghavan, R ^a   Prakash, A O ^b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ESTABLISHMENT   (India)

^b JIWAJI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Blotting; Castor seeds; Gel filtration; Heamagglutination; Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis; Purification; Ricin; Ricinus communis; SDS PAGE; Sodium dodecylsulphate polycrylamide gel electrophoresis; Western blot analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; ELECTROPHORESIS; GELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYPEPTIDES; PROTEINS; PURIFICATION; SEED; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY;

BLOTTING; CASTOR SEEDS; GEL FILTRATION; HEAMAGGLUTINATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RICIN; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SDS-PAGE; SODIUM DODECYLSULPHATE POLYCRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WEATERN-BLOT ANALYSIS;

TOXIC MATERIALS;

EID: 4944248606     PISSN: 0011748X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14429/dsj.54.2048     Document Type: Article

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