Gene Review:
CRYZ - crystallin, zeta (quinone reductase)
Bos taurus
- Zeta-crystallin catalyzes the reductive activation of 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene to generate reactive oxygen species: a proposed mechanism for the induction of cataracts. Kumagai, Y., Wakayama, T., Lib, S., Shinohara, A., Iwamatsu, A., Sun, G., Shimojo, N. FEBS Lett. (2000)
- Chaperone-like activity of alpha-crystallin. The effect of NADPH on its interaction with zeta-crystallin. Rao, P.V., Horwitz, J., Zigler, J.S. J. Biol. Chem. (1994)
- Guinea pig and bovine zeta-crystallins have distinct functional characteristics highlighting replacements in otherwise similar structures. Rao, P.V., Gonzalez, P., Persson, B., Jörnvall, H., Garland, D., Zigler, J.S. Biochemistry (1997)
- Transmission spectra of light to the mammalian retina. Dillon, J., Zheng, L., Merriam, J.C., Gaillard, E.R. Photochem. Photobiol. (2000)
- Binding properties of bovine ocular lens zeta-crystallin to right-handed B-DNA, left-handed Z-DNA, and single-stranded DNA. Gagna, C.E., Chen, J.H., Kuo, H.R., Lambert, W.C. Cell Biol. Int. (1998)
- Novel use of bovine zeta-crystallin as a conformational DNA probe to characterize a phase transition zone and terminally differentiating fiber cells in the adult canine ocular lens. Gagna, C.E., Kuo, H.R., Agostino, N., Rizzo, D., Isquith, I.R., Mathew, J., Mohammed, J., Hoo, S., Lambert, W.C. Arch. Histol. Cytol. (2001)