crystallin

Function

• regarded as structural proteins

Structure

• it appears they are either enzymes or closely related to enzymes, including arginino-succinate lyase (delta), enolase, GSH S-transferase, LDH (epsilon)

Expression

• major component of eye lens

More general terms

• matrix protein

More specific terms

• alpha-crystallin
• beta-crystallin
• delta-crystallin
• epsilon-crystallin
• gamma-crystallin
• mu-crystallin
• tau-crystallin
• zeta-crystallin; quinone oxidoreductase; NADPH:quinone reductase (CRYZ)