The role of macromolecular crowding in the evolution of lens crystallins with high molecular refractive index

Physical Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Zhao, Huaying ^a   Magone, M Teresa ^a   Schuck, Peter ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPODA; VERTEBRATA;

CRYSTALLIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; LENS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 79960925383     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/8/4/046004     Document Type: Article

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