Modified αA Crystallin in the Retina: Altered Expression and Truncation with Aging

Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 51, 2003, Pages 15310-15325

  Kapphahn, Rebecca J ^a   Ethen, Cheryl M ^a   Peters, Elizabeth A ^a   Higgins, LeeAnn ^a   Ferrington, Deborah A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLATION; AGGLOMERATION; GELS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OXIDATION; PROTEINS;

DEAMIDATION; TRUNCATION;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ACETYLATION; AGE; AGED; AGING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DEAMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRUNCATION; RAT; RETINA; STRESS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AGING; ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN A CHAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DOWN-REGULATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RETINA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 0346963154     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi034774e     Document Type: Article

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