The evolution of monomeric and oligomeric βγ-type crystallins: Facts and hypotheses

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 269, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 3122-3130

  D'Alessio, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Chimica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crystallins; Evolution; Introns early; Introns late; Quaternary structure

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; DIMER; LINK PROTEIN; MONOMER; OLIGOMER;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLINS; DIMERIZATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INTRONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0036308563     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1033.2002.03004.x     Document Type: Review

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