Structural features of isomerizable aspartyl residues in human α-crystallins

Molecular Vision

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 1823-1827

  Shimizu, Ken Ichi ^a   Kita, Akiko ^a   Fujii, Noriko ^a   Miki, Kunio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEIC ACID; ENDOPROTEINASE; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; HUMAN; ISOMERIZATION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AGING; ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN A CHAIN; ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPARTIC ACID; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTEINE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOLYSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 84864459121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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