Increased Crym mRNA and μ-crystallin protein levels in Crym tg vs. control mice. A. Crym expression in several skeletal muscles and other tissues was analyzed from 3 Crym tg and 3 control mice. All analyses were in technical triplicate, except for soleus and diaphragm. B. Western blot of μ-crystallin in Crym tg and control TA muscle extracts. Control mice had 40 μg of TA homogenate per lane, and Crym tg lanes had 10 μg of TA homogenates per lane. We were unable to detect μ-crystallin reliably in controls in these blots. C. μ-Crystallin was quantitated with Protein Simple's Wes instrument. Areas under the curve, generated from electropherograms of μ-crystallin expression, were normalized to aconitase-2 expression (n = 3, in technical duplicate) in several muscles and other tissues. Multiple individual t-tests using the Benjamini, Krieger and Yekutieli FDR approach at Q = 1% determined statistical significance (∗∗∗∗ = p < 0.0001). The results show that Crym tg skeletal muscle express high levels of Crym mRNA and protein compared to controls and to other tissues analyzed.