Keeping an eye on myocilin: A complex molecule associated with primary open-angle glaucoma susceptibility

Molecules

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 5402-5421

  Menaa, Farid ^a   Braghini, Carolina Ayumi ^a   De Vasconcellos, Jose Paulo Cabral ^a   Menaa, Bouzid ^b   Costa, Vital Paulino ^a   De Figueiredo, Eugênio Santana ^a   De Melo, Monica Barbosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b Fluorotronics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Blindness; Gene variants; Glaucoma; Molecular Aggregation; Myocilin; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; MYOCILIN; TRABECULAR MESHWORK-INDUCED GLUCOCORTICOID RESPONSE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN FOLDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 79960824875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14203049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/molecules16075402     Document Type: Review

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