Lens α-crystallin: Function and structure

Eye (Basingstoke)

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 403-408

  Horwitz, Joseph ^a   Bova, Michael P ^a   Ding, Lin Lin ^a   Haley, Dana A ^a,b   Stewart, Phoebe L ^b  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataract; Chaperone; Heat shock proteins; Lens; Lens proteins; Crystallin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; CHAPERONE; LENS PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; LENS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STOICHIOMETRY; THERMOSTABILITY;

EID: 0032807869     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1999.114     Document Type: Article

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