J, Albar ?JP, Martinez-Bartolome S, Apweiler R, Omenn GS, Martens L, Jones AR, Hermjakob H (2014). ProteomeXchange provides globally coordinated proteomics data submission and dissemination. Nature Biotechnol. 30(3):223-226. PubMed PMID:24727771. Acknowledgements. We thank Colin Combe for xiNET, Jimi-Carlo Bukowski-Wills for xiSPEC and Lutz Fischer and Salman Tahir for Xi.Funding statement. This work was supported by The Wellcome Trust, ofwhich W.C.E. is a Principal Research 3′-Methylquercetin cost Fellow (grant number 073915) and J.R. is a Senior Research Fellow (grant number 084229). D.L.G. was supported by the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME). D.H. was supported by NHMRC Wuningmeisu C web project grants nos. GNT1030358 and GNT1047009 and by the Victorian Government’s Operational Infrastructure Support Programme. The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology is supported by core grant numbers 077707 and 092076, and the work was also supported by Wellcome Trust instrument grant no. 091020. H.B. was supported by a studentship from the Darwin Trust of Edinburgh.Author contributions. H.B., Z.A.C., J.R. developed the cross-linking analysis; H.B. and J.H.K. collected the data; D.L.G. performed the modelling analysis; W.C.E., J.R. and D.L.G. designed the study; W.C.E., J.R., D.H. and D.L.G. wrote the paper. All authors gave final approval for publication.Conflict of interests. The authors declare no competing interests
Vision is one of the most important senses to animals, which has evolved successfully to allow spatial definition [1]. In mammals, this sense has been optimized to include, for instance, reduced optical aberrations by the presence of lenses with graded indices [2] and the accommodative ability of the lens in humans and other primates [3]. The eye lens is an avascular tissue contained within its own basement membrane and bathed in the eye humours. A single layer of epithelial cells covers the anterior hemisphere of the lens and progeny from these epithelial cells differentiate into fibre cells that comprise the mass of the lens. Epithelial cell proliferation and differentiation to form lens fibre cells are concentrated in the germinative (GZ) and transitional (TZ) zones of the lens epithelium at the lens equator [4,5]. Lens epithelial cells (LECs) differentiate into fibre cells in this `peripheral’ region of the epithelium, entering the body of the lens via the meridional rows (MR) in the TZ [6], where the timely, organized formation of fibre cells is regulated by, for instance, aPKCl [7] and src/ephrin A2 [8]. Such proteins ensure the maintenance of the geometric organization of the fibre cells, which is so important to lens function [3,9]. Changes in cellPresent address: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionLicense http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.proliferation translate directly into alterations to lens morphology [7,8,10,11]. This peripheral region and specifically the GZ of the lens is known to be radiosensitive due to the concentration of proliferating cells located here [12,13]. Since the end of the nineteenth century, the eye lens has been known to be a radiosensitive tissue [14] and the heightened sensitivity of the lens compared with other ocular tissues was reported in 1929 [15]. Studies from the last.J, Albar ?JP, Martinez-Bartolome S, Apweiler R, Omenn GS, Martens L, Jones AR, Hermjakob H (2014). ProteomeXchange provides globally coordinated proteomics data submission and dissemination. Nature Biotechnol. 30(3):223-226. PubMed PMID:24727771. Acknowledgements. We thank Colin Combe for xiNET, Jimi-Carlo Bukowski-Wills for xiSPEC and Lutz Fischer and Salman Tahir for Xi.Funding statement. This work was supported by The Wellcome Trust, ofwhich W.C.E. is a Principal Research Fellow (grant number 073915) and J.R. is a Senior Research Fellow (grant number 084229). D.L.G. was supported by the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FfAME). D.H. was supported by NHMRC project grants nos. GNT1030358 and GNT1047009 and by the Victorian Government’s Operational Infrastructure Support Programme. The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology is supported by core grant numbers 077707 and 092076, and the work was also supported by Wellcome Trust instrument grant no. 091020. H.B. was supported by a studentship from the Darwin Trust of Edinburgh.Author contributions. H.B., Z.A.C., J.R. developed the cross-linking analysis; H.B. and J.H.K. collected the data; D.L.G. performed the modelling analysis; W.C.E., J.R. and D.L.G. designed the study; W.C.E., J.R., D.H. and D.L.G. wrote the paper. All authors gave final approval for publication.Conflict of interests. The authors declare no competing interests
Vision is one of the most important senses to animals, which has evolved successfully to allow spatial definition [1]. In mammals, this sense has been optimized to include, for instance, reduced optical aberrations by the presence of lenses with graded indices [2] and the accommodative ability of the lens in humans and other primates [3]. The eye lens is an avascular tissue contained within its own basement membrane and bathed in the eye humours. A single layer of epithelial cells covers the anterior hemisphere of the lens and progeny from these epithelial cells differentiate into fibre cells that comprise the mass of the lens. Epithelial cell proliferation and differentiation to form lens fibre cells are concentrated in the germinative (GZ) and transitional (TZ) zones of the lens epithelium at the lens equator [4,5]. Lens epithelial cells (LECs) differentiate into fibre cells in this `peripheral’ region of the epithelium, entering the body of the lens via the meridional rows (MR) in the TZ [6], where the timely, organized formation of fibre cells is regulated by, for instance, aPKCl [7] and src/ephrin A2 [8]. Such proteins ensure the maintenance of the geometric organization of the fibre cells, which is so important to lens function [3,9]. Changes in cellPresent address: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.2015 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons AttributionLicense http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.proliferation translate directly into alterations to lens morphology [7,8,10,11]. This peripheral region and specifically the GZ of the lens is known to be radiosensitive due to the concentration of proliferating cells located here [12,13]. Since the end of the nineteenth century, the eye lens has been known to be a radiosensitive tissue [14] and the heightened sensitivity of the lens compared with other ocular tissues was reported in 1929 [15]. Studies from the last.
