Proteolytic cleavage of N-Succ-Leu-Leu-Val-Tyr-AMC by the proteasome in lens epithelium from clear and cataractous human lenses

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-236

  Andersson, Madeleine ^a,b   Sjöstrand, Johan ^a   Karlsson, Jan Olof ^b  

^a Neuropsychiatric Res U G   (Sweden)

^b Box 420   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cataract; Human; Lens epithelium; Proteasome; Proteolysis

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PROTEASOME;

AGING; ARTICLE; CATARACT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENS EPITHELIUM; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032144578     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exer.1998.0519     Document Type: Article

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