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A class of crystallins that provides refractive power and translucency to the lens (LENS, CRYSTALLINE) in VERTEBRATES. Beta-crystallins are similar in structure to GAMMA-CRYSTALLINS in that they both contain Greek key motifs. Beta-crystallins exist as oligomers formed from acidic (BETA-CRYSTALLIN A CHAIN) and basic (BETA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN) subunits.
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- Crystallins, beta
- beta-Crystallin
- beta Crystallin
- beta Crystallins
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2003; for BETA-CRYSTALLIN use CRYSTALLINS 1982-2002
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- Crystallins (1966-2002)
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- National Library of Medicine. beta-Crystallins. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D038204. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D038204
- beta-Crystallins. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76452626