Structure and function of α-crystallins: Traversing from in vitro to in vivo

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects

Volumn 1860, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 149-166

  Haslbeck, Martin ^a   Peschek, Jirka ^a,b   Buchner, Johannes ^a   Weinkauf, Sevil ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crystallin; Eye lens; Molecular chaperone; Protein dynamics; Small heat shock protein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; ALPHAA CRYSTALLIN; ALPHAB CRYSTALLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN BINDING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BOVINE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATARACT; DEAMINATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISPERSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LENS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; THERMOSTABILITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CATARACT; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84948406538     PISSN: 03044165     EISSN: 18728006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2015.06.008     Document Type: Article

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