The human crystallin gene families

<p>Abstract</p> <p>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 recrui...

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Main Author: Wistow Graeme
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-12-01
Series:Human Genomics
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Online Access:http://www.humgenomics.com/content/6/1/26