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The human crystallin gene families.

Human genomics - 1 Dec 2012

Wistow Graeme

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Crystallins are the abundant, long-lived proteins of the eye lens. The major human crystallins belong to two different superfamilies: the small heat-shock proteins (α-crystallins) and the βγ-crystallins. During evolution, other proteins have sometimes been recruited as crystallins to modify the properties of the lens. In the developing human lens, the enzyme betaine-homocysteine methyltransferase serves such a...

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PMID: 23199295
DOI: 10.1186/1479-7364-6-26
PMCID: PMC3554465

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