Crosslinking of human lens 9 kDa γD-crystallin fragment in vitro and in vivo

Molecular Vision

Volumn 9, Issue , 2003, Pages 644-656

  Srivastava, Om P ^a   Srivastava, Kiran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; AMINO ACID; BETA CRYSTALLIN; CRYSTALLIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; GAMMA D CRYSTALLIN; ISOPROTEIN; METHIONINE; OXYGEN; POLYMER; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVALENT BOND; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INCUBATION TIME; LENS; MASS SPECTROMETER; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OXIDATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; BETA-CRYSTALLINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AGAROSE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GAMMA-CRYSTALLINS; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 0346039147     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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