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A family of lens fiber cell specific proteins
1Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan 48201.
Lens and Eye Toxicity Research
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
A family of related polypeptides of molecular weights 97 kd, 93 kd, 64 kd, 62 kd, 51 kd and 49 kd is unique to chick lens fiber cells, and is not found in the epithelial cells. Cross-reacting proteins were also detected in bovine and human lenses. This family of membrane-associated proteins is cytoskeletal in nature and localized to the beaded-chain filaments.