RESEARCH ARTICLE
Subunit Mobility and the Chaperone Activity of Recombinant αB-Crystallin
A Krushelnitsky*, 1, N Mukhametshina1, Y Gogolev1, N Tarasova1, D Faizullin1, T Zinkevich2, O Gnezdilov2, V Fedotov1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2008Volume: 2
First Page: 116
Last Page: 120
Publisher ID: TOBIOCJ-2-116
DOI: 10.2174/1874091X00802010116
Article History:
Received Date: 31/7/2008Revision Received Date: 5/8/2008
Acceptance Date: 6/8/2008
Electronic publication date: 2/9/2008
Collection year: 2008

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Abstract
The comparison of the chaperone-like activity of native and covalently cross-linked human αB-crystallins has confirmed the important role of the subunit mobility in the chaperoning mechanism. Our data clearly demonstrate that the chaperone-like activity of α-crystallin is not only a surface phenomenon as was suggested by some researchers.