Quaternary structural parameters of the congenital cataract causing mutants of αa-crystallin

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 362, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 93-102

  Kore, Rajshekhar ^a   Hedges, Rebecca A ^a   Oonthonpan, Lalita ^a   Santhoshkumar, Puttur ^b   Sharma, Krishna K ^b   Abraham, Edathara C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital cataract; Molecular chaperones; Small heat shock proteins; A crystallin; A crystallin mutants

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; DIMER; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; CHAPERONE; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; GENE MUTATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTANT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE; CHILD; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN DEPLETION; R116C GENE; R116H GENE; R12C GENE; R21L GENE; R21W GENE; R49C GENE; R54C GENE;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN A CHAIN; ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; CATARACT; CHILD; DISULFIDES; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS, SMALL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 84857055112     PISSN: 03008177     EISSN: 15734919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-011-1131-8     Document Type: Article

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