Phase behavior of mixtures of human lens proteins Gamma D and Beta B1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 30, 2010, Pages 13282-13287

  Wang, Ying ^a   Lomakin, Aleksey ^a   McManus, Jennifer J ^a,c   Ogun, Olutayo ^a   Benedek, George B ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cataract; Crystallin; Mixture; Phase separation

Indexed keywords

BETA CRYSTALLIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; LENS PROTEIN; CRYBB1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CRYGD PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

ARTICLE; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; PHASE PARTITIONING; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMAN; KINETICS; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; BETA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; CRYSTALLIZATION; GAMMA-CRYSTALLINS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN BINDING; SOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77955799122     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008353107     Document Type: Article

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