Small heat shock proteins and stress tolerance in plants

W Sun, M Van Montagu, N Verbruggen - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta …, 2002 - Elsevier
Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are produced ubiquitously in prokaryotic and eukaryotic
cells upon heat. The special importance of sHsps in plants is suggested by unusual …

Identification of an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA encoding a HSP70‐related protein belonging to the HSP110/SSE1 subfamily

S Storozhenko, P De Pauw, S Kushnir… - FEBS …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Heat‐shock protein 70 (HSP70)‐related proteins are classified in two main subfamilies: the
DnaK subfamily and the HSP110/SSE1 subfamily. We have characterized the first plant …

Characterization of a plastid-specific HSP90 homologue: identification of a cDNA sequence, phylogenetic descendence and analysis of its mRNA and protein …

G Schmitz, M Schmidt, J Feierabend - Plant molecular biology, 1996 - Springer
The isolation of cDNAs is described which encode the complete sequence of a precursor
protein for a HSP90 homologue consisting of an N-terminal transit peptide of 5850 Da and a …

Evidence for non-circadian light/dark-regulated expression of Hsp70s in spinach leaves

QB Li, CL Guy - Plant physiology, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Expression of six Hsp70s in spinach (Spinacia oleracea cv Longstanding Bloomsdale)
leaves grown under isothermal conditions is regulated by a light/dark (L/D) mechanism …

Heat shock proteins 90 kDa: diversity, structure, functions

LE Kozeko - Tsitologiia, 2010 - europepmc.org
The review presents data on diversity, structure, functions and gene expression of the high
conserved family of heat shock proteins 90 kDa (Hsp90). They are specialized molecular …

Physiological and Molecular Assessment of Altered Expression of Hsc70-1 in Arabidopsis. Evidence for Pleiotropic Consequences

DY Sung, CL Guy - Plant Physiology, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Hsp70s function as molecular chaperones. The protective chaperone activities of hsp70
help to confer tolerance to heat, glucose deprivation, and drought. Overexpression of …

Molecular cloning, characterization and expression analysis of a heat shock protein 10 (Hsp10) from Pennisetum glaucum (L.), a C4 cereal plant from the semi-arid …

RB Nitnavare, RK Yeshvekar, KK Sharma… - Molecular biology …, 2016 - Springer
Heat shock proteins (Hsp10) belong to the ubiquitous family of heat-shock molecular
chaperones found in the organelles of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Chaperonins assist …

Molecular chaperone activity of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) endoplasmic reticulum-located small heat shock protein

TG Mamedov, M Shono - Journal of Plant Research, 2008 - Springer
The gene encoding the small heat shock protein (sHSP), LeHSP21. 5, has been previously
cloned from tomato (GenBank accession no. AB026983). The deduced amino acid …

ATPase activity and molecular chaperone function of the stress70 proteins

JA Miernyk, GT Hayman - Plant physiology, 1996 - academic.oup.com
The codons for the amino acid residues making up the proposed ATP-binding sites of the
maize (Zea mays L.) endoplasmic reticulum and tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) …

Heat‐shock proteins as molecular chaperones

J Becker, EA Craig - European Journal of Biochemistry, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Functional proteins within cells are normally present in their native, completely folded form.
However, vital processes of protein biogenesis such as protein synthesis and translocation …