Trehalose effects on α-crystallin aggregates

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 354, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 899-905

  Attanasio, Francesco ^a   Cascio, Claudia ^b   Fisichella, Salvatore ^c   Nicoletti, Vincenzo Giuseppe ^c   Pignataro, Bruno ^d   Savarino, Anna ^c   Rizzarelli, Enrico ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Consorzio Catania Ricerche ^*  (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crystallin; Aggregates; Chaperone activity; Thermal stability; Trehalose

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; CHAPERONE; TREHALOSE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRESS; THERMOSTABILITY;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; THIAZOLES; TREHALOSE;

EID: 33846799235     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.01.061     Document Type: Article

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