... with the familiar pattern of expression of the principally embryonic cA–F genes in the rodentlens [41,47]. The absence of expression in outer layers of the lens contrasts with the expression of ... man [8,9]. In the verteb-rate lens, the b and c crystallins together account for the majority of the soluble proteins (the other majorfamily being the a-crystallins, members of the smallheat-shock ... encodes the first two structural motifs, and hence the N-ter-minal domain of the protein, just as in the genes forcS and cA–F. However, the second half of the genehas the structure of a b-crystallin...