α-Crystallin as a molecular chaperone

Progress in Retinal and Eye Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 463-509

  Derham, Barry K ^a   Harding, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; AMPHOPHILE; CHAPERONE; CORTICOSTEROID; CRYSTALLIN; PREDNISOLONE; PROTEIN;

CATARACT; CELL NUCLEUS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GLYCATION; HEAT SHOCK; HUMAN; LENS; LENS NUCLEUS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SOLUBILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CRYSTALLINS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032986520     PISSN: 13509462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-9462(98)00030-5     Document Type: Review

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