Fig. 6. Nε-acetylation inhibits pentosidine formation from ascorbate in α-crystallin.
Unacetylated and acetylated αA-crystallin (A) and αB-crystallin (B) was incubated with ascorbate for one week. Pentosidine was measured by fluorescence HPLC.
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