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Oxidation of human lens recombinant alphaA-crystallin and cysteine-deficient mutants.
Journal of molecular biology - 26 Jan 2001
Chen S J, Sun T X, Akhtar N J, Liang J J
Abstract excerpt
Disulfide cross-linking, one of the results of oxidative stress, has been thought to play an important role in cataractogenesis. High molecular mass (HMM) protein aggregation also contributes to cataract development, and a prevailing speculation is that disulfide cross-linking induces HMM aggregation. However, there is no direct evidence to support this speculation. Dimerization is an effect of disulfide...
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