Silencing of the methionine sulfoxide reductase A gene results in loss of mitochondrial membrane potential and increased ROS production in human lens cells

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1281-1286

  Marchetti, Maria A ^a   Lee, Wanda ^a   Cowell, Tracy L ^a   Wells, Tracy M ^a   Weissbach, Herbert ^b   Kantorow, Marc ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cataract; lens; mitochondrial function; MsrA; oxidative stress

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; METHIONINE SULFOXIDE REDUCTASE A; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LENS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; METHIONINE SULFOXIDE REDUCTASES; MITOCHONDRIA; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXIDOREDUCTASES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 33748680912     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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