Functional Validation of Hydrophobic Adaptation to Physiological Temperature in the Small Heat Shock Protein αA-crystallin

Mason Posner; Andor J. Kiss; Jackie Skiba; Amy Drossman; Monika B. Dolinska; J. Fielding Hejtmancik; Yuri V. Sergeev

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034438

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Functional Validation of Hydrophobic Adaptation to Physiological Temperature in the Small Heat Shock Protein αA-crystallin

Mason Posner ,

* E-mail: mposner@ashland.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio, United States of America
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Andor J. Kiss,

Affiliation Department of Zoology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, United States of America
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Jackie Skiba,

Affiliation Department of Biology, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio, United States of America
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Amy Drossman,

Affiliation Department of Biology, Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio, United States of America
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Monika B. Dolinska,

Affiliation Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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J. Fielding Hejtmancik,

Affiliation Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Yuri V. Sergeev

Affiliation Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual Function Branch, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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Functional Validation of Hydrophobic Adaptation to Physiological Temperature in the Small Heat Shock Protein αA-crystallin

Mason Posner,
Andor J. Kiss,
Jackie Skiba,
Amy Drossman,
Monika B. Dolinska,
J. Fielding Hejtmancik,
Yuri V. Sergeev

Published: March 29, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034438

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