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lens crystallins

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lens crystallins [¦lenz ′kris·tə‚linz]
(cell and molecular biology)
A diverse family of water-soluble proteins that constitute up to 90% of the proteins found in the eye lens and together play a structural role by orienting themselves to facilitate refraction of light, some of the individual proteins exhibit other distinct functions when expressed elsewhere in the organism.
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