作者
Georgios D Lianos, George A Alexiou, Alberto Mangano, Alessandro Mangano, Stefano Rausei, Luigi Boni, Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Dimitrios H Roukos
发表日期
2015/5/1
来源
Cancer letters
卷号
360
期号
2
页码范围
114-118
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are an evolutionary family of proteins that act as molecular chaperones. According to their size they have been classified into the following families; HSP90, HSP70, HSP60, HSP40 and HSP27. They prevent the formation of nonspecific protein aggregates and they assist proteins in the acquisition of their normal architecture. Moreover, HSPs are likely to have anti-apoptotic properties and are actively involved in various processes as tumor cell proliferation, invasion, metastases and death. Notably, these proteins have been reported to be significantly elevated in a plethora of human cancers. Their over-expression has been robustly associated with therapeutic resistance and poor survival. In this way, HSPs may have important therapeutic implications and they can be targeted by specific drugs. In this review, we discuss the influence of HSP27, HSP40, HSP60, HSP70 and HSP90 on …
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