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alpha-Crystallin from human cataractous lenses is so extensively modified that it is unsuitable for structural studies. We have disassembled the protein and, from the remaining traces of unmodified polypeptides, reconstructed a more homogeneous and conformationally discrete molecule. We suggest that this approach may be particularly useful to studies of enzymology and molecular gerontology.
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Thomson et al. (1985) studied this question.
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