Hard sphere-like glass transition in eye lens α-crystallin solutions

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

Volumn 111, Issue 47, 2014, Pages 16748-16753

  Foffi, Giuseppe ^a   Savin, Gabriela ^b   Bucciarelli, Saskia ^c   Dorsaz, Nicolas ^d   Thurston, George M ^e   Stradner, Anna ^c   Schurtenberger, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha crystallin; Glass transition; Mode coupling theory; Molecular dynamics; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATARACTOGENESIS; CATTLE; COLLOID; KINETICS; LENS; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRESBYOPIA; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; VISCOMETRY; VISCOSITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; RADIATION SCATTERING;

BOVINAE;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; SCATTERING, RADIATION; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84912562512     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406990111     Document Type: Article

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