Photosensitized Structural Modifications of the Lens Protein α-Crystallin: Do All Modifications Impair Chaperone-like Activity?

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 567-571

  Sgarbossa, Antonella ^a   Youssef, Tareq ^a,b   Lenci, Francesco ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; CHAPERONE; INSULIN; TRYPTOPHAN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; HYPERICIN; PERYLENE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; KINETICS; LENS; LIGHT EXPOSURE; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

HYPERICUM;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PERYLENE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0037590259     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)077<0567:PSMOTL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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