| Primary Identifier | IPR030641 | Type | Family |
| Short Name | Grifin |
| description | In mammals, GRIFIN (galectin related inter fibre protein) is a lens crystallin protein that does not bind beta-galactoside sugars and has atypical sequences at normally conserved regions of the carbohydrate-binding domain []. It binds to alpha-crystallin in the lens []. Unlike the mammalian homologue, fish GRIFIN contains all amino acids critical for binding to carbohydrate ligands and its carbohydrate-binding properties have been confirmed. Fish GRIFIN may also function as a crystallin []. |
