Fatal attraction: When chaperone turns harlot

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-26

  Quinlan, Roy ^a   Van Den Ijssel, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

CATARACT; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MYOPATHY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SHORT SURVEY;

CATARACT; CRYSTALLINS; DESMIN; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0033016166     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/4704     Document Type: Short Survey

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