Heat and concentration effects on the small heat shock protein, α-crystallin

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 470-475

  Mandal, Krishnagopal ^a   Dillon, James ^a   Gaillard, Elizabeth R ^b  

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

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; CHAPERONE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFORMATION; FLUORESCENCE; HEAT; HEATING; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STEADY STATE; TIME;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CRYSTALLINS; HEAT; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034175460     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2000)071<0470:HACEOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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