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Crystallin proteins and amyloid fibrils

Date

Authors

Ecroyd, Heath

Carver, John

Publisher

Birkhauser Verlag

Abstract

Improper protein folding (misfolding) can lead to the formation of disordered (amorphous) or ordered (amyloid fibril) aggregates. The major lens protein, α-crystallin, is a member of the small heat-shock protein (sHsp) family of intracellular molecular c

Keywords

Keywords: alpha crystallin; alpha synuclein; amyloid; amyloid beta protein[25-35]; beta crystallin; biomaterial; chaperone; gamma crystallin; heat shock protein 20; heat shock protein 25; heat shock protein 27; small heat shock protein; Alzheimer disease; amino aci Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid fibril; Cataract; Crystallin; Lens; Molecular chaperone; Parkinson's disease; Protein aggregation; Protein folding; Small heat-shock protein

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/63182

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1007/s00018-008-8327-4

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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