Alpha crystallin: The quest for a homogeneous quaternary structure

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-194

  Horwitz, Joseph ^a  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

alpha crystallin; cataract; chaperone; quaternary structure; small heat shock proteins

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LENS; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HUMANS; LENS NUCLEUS, CRYSTALLINE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 61849111603     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2008.07.007     Document Type: Review

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