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Schematic representation (A) and crystal structure (B) of the toxin ricin. The enzymatically-active subunit (A-chain) is marked in red, whereas the binding domain (B-chain) is presented in green. Both subunits are linked by a single disulfide bond. Crystal structure has been obtained from the PDB protein data bank (code 2AA1).
