Specificity of αA-crystallin binding to destabilized mutants of βB1-crystallin

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1939-1943

  Mchaourab, Hassane S ^a   Kumar, M Satish ^a   Koteiche, Hanane A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallin; Crystallin; Cataract; Chaperone; Small heat shock protein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; BETAB1 CRYSTALLIN; DIMER; MUTANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; LENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN A CHAIN; BETA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; MUTANT PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 34247580177     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.04.005     Document Type: Article

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