Ageing and vision: Structure, stability and function of lens crystallins

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 407-485

  Bloemendal, Hans ^a   De Jong, Wilfried ^a   Jaenicke, Rainer ^b,c   Lubsen, Nicolette H ^a   Slingsby, Christine ^c   Tardieu, Annette ^d  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Cataract; Chaperone; Crystallins; Development; Evolution; Eye lens; Protein stability

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CATARACT; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; LENS CAPSULE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VISION;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATARACT; CRYSTALLINS; HUMANS; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VISION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 4143088433     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2003.11.012     Document Type: Review

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