"gamma-Crystallins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A subclass of crystallins that found in the lens (LENS, CRYSTALLINE) of VERTEBRATES. Gamma-crystallins are similar in structure to BETA-CRYSTALLINS in that they both form into a Greek key-like structure. They are composed of monomeric subunits.
| Descriptor ID |
D038222
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.306.366.850
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| Concept/Terms |
gamma-Crystallins- gamma-Crystallins
- gamma Crystallins
- Crystallins, gamma
- gamma-Crystallin
- gamma Crystallin
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| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "gamma-Crystallins" by people in Profiles.
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Plotnikova OV, Kondrashov FA, Vlasov PK, Grigorenko AP, Ginter EK, Rogaev EI. Conversion and compensatory evolution of the gamma-crystallin genes and identification of a cataractogenic mutation that reverses the sequence of the human CRYGD gene to an ancestral state. Am J Hum Genet. 2007 Jul; 81(1):32-43.