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Recovery of argininosuccinate lyase activity in duck delta1 crystallin.
Biochemistry - 28 Jun 2005
Tsai May, Koo Jason, Howell P Lynne
Abstract excerpt
Delta-crystallin, the major soluble protein component in the avian eye lens, is homologous to argininosuccinate lyase (ASL). Two delta-crystallin isoforms exist in ducks, delta1- and delta2-crystallin, which are 94% identical in amino acid sequence. While duck delta2-crystallin (ddeltac2) has maintained ASL activity, evolution has rendered duck delta1-crystallin (ddeltac1) enzymatically inactive. Previous...
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