Identification of Photooxidation Sites in Bovine α-Crystallin

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 635-641

  Finley, Eric L ^a   Busman, Mark ^a   Dillon, James ^b   Crouch, Rosalie K ^a   Schey, Kevin L ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINAE;

CRYSTALLIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; LENS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CATTLE; CRYSTALLINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0031264264     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb03200.x     Document Type: Article

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