Our article was Editors’ Pick Highlight, and image selected as a cover article for the 10th May edition of JBC!

The image shows the structure of the long-lived small heat-shock proteins (present in the eye lens), and the effect of age-related isomerisation of key amino-acids, as detailed in our article.

[image composed with Gimp from protein VMD rendering redesigned by the artistic hand of Valentina Erastova]