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Highly toxic protein
Answer for the clue "Highly toxic protein ", 5 letters:
ricin
Alternative clues for the word ricin
- A toxic protein extracted from castor beans
- Castor bean poison
- "Breaking Bad" toxin
- Estimating cost of topped and tailed bean extract that's toxic
- Nice here in the navy, getting some killer protein!
- Poison from beans of the castor oil plant
- Used as a chemical reagent
- Poisonous protein in castor beans
Word definitions for ricin in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context protein poison English) A toxic protein extracted from the castor bean.
Usage examples of ricin.
Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever, ricin, sarin, aflatoxin - and long-range missiles in Iraq.
Ricin is one of the potentially lethal vegetable alkaloids like taxine and digitalin.
He arranged communication and transportation for the ricin plotters, and he recruited the crew manning the Exo scout.
I happen to know that when Ricin is injected in small doses hypodermically immunity is produced, antiRicin is formed.
Ricin and abrin are vegetable protein toxins of enormous potency and exert a narcotic action.
So far, we have found chemical and biological weapons - brucella and Congo-Crimean hemorrhagic fever, ricin, sarin, aflatoxin - and long-range missiles in Iraq.
However, UNSCOM discovered that Iraq had also conducted research on Clostridium perfringens (which causes gangrene), ricin, and several viruses, including plague, as well.