Ribonucleases of different origins with a wide spectrum of medicinal applications

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Reviews on Cancer

Volumn 1815, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-74

  Fang, Evandro Fei ^a   Ng, Tzi Bun ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Binase; Ginseng; Mushroom; Onconase; Ribonuclease; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SARCIN; AMPHINASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BARNASE; BINASE; BOVINE PANCREATIC RNASE A; BOVINE SEMINAL RNASE A; FUNGAL ENZYME; GINSENG RNASE; GINSENG RNASE 1; HUMAN PANCREATIC RNASE; NUCLEASE; PANAXAGIN; PEMETREXED; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; RANPIRNASE; RC RNASE; RC RNASE111; RC RNASE2; RC RNASE3; RC RNASE5; RC RNASE6; RC RNASEL1; RIBONUCLEASE; RJ LECTIN; RJ RNASE; RNASE SA3; SCFV 4D5 DIBARNASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; WHEAT LEAF RNASE PH A;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER THERAPY; CATALYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENZYME ENGINEERING; ENZYME PURIFICATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALIGNANT MESOTHELIOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; FUNGI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; PLANTS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RIBONUCLEASES;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; PANAX GINSENG; PROKARYOTA; RANA PIPIENS;

EID: 78650539904     PISSN: 0304419X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbcan.2010.09.001     Document Type: Review

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