Human lens thioredoxin: Molecular cloning and functional characterization

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 3263-3271

  Yegorova, Svitlana ^a   Liu, Aimin ^a   Lou, Marjorie F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSULIN; IODOACETIC ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THIOREDOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOLYSIS; DNA LIBRARY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; LENS; LENS EPITHELIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWINE; TXN GENE; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IODOACETAMIDE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SWINE; THIOREDOXIN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0042844837     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-1322     Document Type: Article

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