• In anatomy, a crystallin is a water-soluble structural protein found in the lens and the cornea of the eye accounting for the transparency of the structure...
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    CRYAB (redirect from Alfa-B-crystallin)
    Alpha-crystallin B chain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CRYAB gene. It is part of the small heat shock protein family and functions as molecular...
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    to taxon-specific lens crystallins, such as ALDH1A1/ η-crystallin, α-enolase/τ-crystallin, and lactic dehydrogenase/ -crystallin. Also, the anuran corneal...
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    Gamma-crystallin D is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CRYGD gene. Crystallins are separated into two classes: taxon-specific, or enzyme, and...
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    Beta-crystallin A3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CRYBA1 gene. Crystallins are separated into two classes: taxon-specific, or enzyme, and...
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    signals also induce the synthesis of proteins called crystallins. As the name suggests the crystallins can form a clear highly refractive jelly. These elongating...
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    most closely related to δ-crystallin in amino acid sequence and in protein fold structure. There are two isoforms of δ-crystallin, δI and δII. These two...
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    CRYGB (redirect from Gamma-crystallin B)
    Gamma-crystallin B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CRYGB gene. Crystallins are separated into two classes: taxon-specific, or enzyme, and...
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    concentrations of the protein crystallin. These crystallins belong to two major families, the α-crystallins and the βγ-crystallins. Both categories of proteins...
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    Mu-crystallin homolog also known as NADP-regulated thyroid-hormone-binding protein (THBP) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CRYM gene. Multiple...
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    clarity. Its proposed mechanism of action is to inhibit the aggregation of crystallin proteins, which contribute to the clouding of vision by forming cataracts...
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    Alpha-crystallin A chain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CRYAA gene. Crystallins are separated into two classes: taxon-specific, or enzyme...
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  • conserved protein binding domain of approximately 80 amino-acid alpha crystallins are known as small heat shock proteins (sHSP). It is known that rapid...
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    other proteins, such as ubiquitin, neurofilament protein, and alpha B crystallin. Tau proteins may also be present, and Lewy bodies may occasionally be...
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  • intrinsic programme of crystallin gene expression during this process was found to be non-coordinate within and between crystallin protein classes, tightly...
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    Crystallin, gamma C, also known as CRYGC, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the CRYGC gene. Crystallins are separated into two classes: taxon-specific...
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    blind spot of vertebrates. The crystallins used in the lens appear to have developed independently from vertebrate crystallins, suggesting a homoplasious...
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    reducing oxidation and glycation damage in the lens, particularly reducing crystallin crosslinking. Some benefit has been shown in small manufacturer-sponsored...
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    derived eyes seen in vertebrates and cephalopods focuses on: lenses and crystallin composition, synapses, and Pax genes and their implied evidence for shared...
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  • C10 C11 C13 C14 C19 Hsp70 1A 1B 1L 2 4 4L 5 6 7 8 9 12A 14 Hsp90 α1 α2 β ER TRAP1 Other Alpha crystallin Clusterin Survival of motor neuron SMN1 SMN2...
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    non-infiltrative, and endomyocardial etiologies: Genetic DES (desmin) CRYAB (alpha B Crystallin, HSPB5) FLNC (filamin C) Infiltrative Amyloidosis Sarcoidosis Primary...
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  • characterised by the presence of a conserved C-terminal domain, alpha-crystallin domain, of about 100 residues. Recently, small heat shock proteins (sHSPs)...
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    glycolysis and xenobiotic metabolism to serve as structural proteins called crystallins within the lenses of organisms' eyes. An area of current investigation...
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    Hsp27 is a chaperone of the sHsp (small heat shock protein) group among α-crystallin, Hsp20, and others. The common functions of sHsps are chaperone activity...
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    "Amyloid Fibrils from Readily Available Sources: Milk Casein and Lens Crystallin Proteins". In Gerrard JA (ed.). Protein Nanotechnology. Methods in Molecular...
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    FR 1010427  H. F. Mataré / H. Welker / Westinghouse: "Nouveau sytème crystallin à plusieur électrodes réalisant des relais de effects électroniques" filed...
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  • Crystallin, lambda 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CRYL1 gene. "Entrez Gene: Crystallin, lambda 1". Retrieved 2014-02-21. Mulders, J....
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  • Example protein half-lives Name Half-Life Collagen 117 years Eye lens crystallin >70 years RFC1 9 hours RPS8 3 hours Ornithine decarboxylase 11 minutes...
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    protein that has sequence similarity to zeta crystallin, also known as quinone oxidoreductase. This zeta crystallin-like protein also contains an NAD(P)H binding...
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    lack of light in the deep sea, the Yap genome includes fewer copies of crystallin genes, which encode proteins that sense light and assist in focused vision...
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