Ribonucleases as potential therapeutic agents (original) (raw)

Objective Due to high cytotoxicity effect, ribonucleases (RNases) are known as pharmacological agents with therapeutic potential. The high potential of these enzymes in the destruction of RNA strand and their other substrates and subsequently, cell destruction or cessation of cell division causes a very high cytotoxic effect of this enzyme in various cancer cells. Hence, this review investigates the therapeutic applications of ribonucleases, cell pathways and their mode of action as cytotoxic agents in order to pay attention to them in researches related to the health and therapy fields. Materials and methods In this study the keywords such as cancer, ribonuclease, ribonuclease inhibitor and RNA were used to search in databases including Scopus, SID, IranDoc, PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science and IranMedex. In order to select the documents used, all articles published in non-English and Persian languages, duplicate articles, articles that could not be accessed to the full 30