[HTML][HTML] Nine loci for ocular axial length identified through genome-wide association studies, including shared loci with refractive error

CY Cheng, M Schache, MK Ikram, TL Young… - The American Journal of …, 2013 - cell.com
Refractive errors are common eye disorders of public health importance worldwide. Ocular
axial length (AL) is the major determinant of refraction and thus of myopia and hyperopia …

The water permeability of lens aquaporin-0 depends on its lipid bilayer environment

J Tong, JT Canty, MM Briggs, TJ McIntosh - Experimental eye research, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Aquaporin-0 (AQP0), the primary water channel in lens fiber cells, is critical to lens
development, organization, and function. In the avascular lens there is thought to be an …

Histone posttranslational modifications and cell fate determination: lens induction requires the lysine acetyltransferases CBP and p300

L Wolf, W Harrison, J Huang, Q Xie, N Xiao… - Nucleic acids …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Lens induction is a classical embryologic model to study cell fate determination. It has been
proposed earlier that specific changes in core histone modifications accompany the process …

Functional characterization of an AQP0 missense mutation, R33C, that causes dominant congenital lens cataract, reveals impaired cell-to-cell adhesion

SS Kumari, J Gandhi, MH Mustehsan, S Eren… - Experimental eye …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Aquaporin 0 (AQP0) performs dual functions in the lens fiber cells, as a water pore
and as a cell-to-cell adhesion molecule. Mutations in AQP0 cause severe lens cataract in …

An MIP/AQP0 mutation with impaired trafficking and function underlies an autosomal dominant congenital lamellar cataract

GS Kumar, JW Kyle, PJ Minogue, KD Kumar… - Experimental eye …, 2013 - Elsevier
Autosomal dominant congenital cataracts have been associated with mutations of genes
encoding several soluble and membrane proteins. By candidate gene screening, we …

[HTML][HTML] Connexin50D47A decreases levels of fiber cell connexins and impairs lens fiber cell differentiation

VM Berthoud, PJ Minogue, H Yu… - … & Visual Science, 2013 - jov.arvojournals.org
Purpose.: Substitutions of aspartate-47 (D47) of Connexin50 (Cx50) have been linked to
autosomal dominant congenital cataracts in several human pedigrees. To elucidate the lens …

[HTML][HTML] A novel donor splice-site mutation of major intrinsic protein gene associated with congenital cataract in a Chinese family

L Zeng, W Liu, W Feng, X Wang, H Dang, L Gao… - Molecular …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose To identify the disease-causing gene in a Chinese family with autosomal dominant
congenital cataract. Methods Clinical and ophthalmologic examinations were performed on …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal Stress Induced Aggregation of Aquaporin 0 (AQP0) and Protection by α-Crystallin via Its Chaperone Function

S Swamy-Mruthinti, V Srinivas, JE Hansen, CM Rao - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Aquaporin 0 (AQP0) formerly known as membrane intrinsic protein (MIP), is expressed
exclusively in the lens during terminal differentiation of fiber cells. AQP0 plays an important …

[PDF][PDF] ARTICLE Nine Loci for Ocular Axial Length Identified through Genome-wide Association Studies, Including Shared Loci with Refractive Error

JA Guggenheim, V Vitart, S MacGregor… - The American Journal …, 2013 - academia.edu
Refractive errors are common eye disorders of public health importance worldwide. Ocular
axial length (AL) is the major determinant of refraction and thus of myopia and hyperopia …

Reactions of long-lived lens proteins

B Lyons - 2013 - ses.library.usyd.edu.au
The human lens contains the highest protein concentration of any tissue in the body, yet
there is no protein turnover. As a result, proteins found in the centre of the lens (the nucleus) …