Small heat shock proteins: Simplicity meets complexity

M Haslbeck, S Weinkauf, J Buchner - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are a ubiquitous and ancient family of ATP-independent
molecular chaperones. A key characteristic of sHsps is that they exist in ensembles of iso …

[HTML][HTML] Small heat shock proteins: role in cellular functions and pathology

R Bakthisaran, R Tangirala, CM Rao - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2015 - Elsevier
Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are conserved across species and are important in stress
tolerance. Many sHsps exhibit chaperone-like activity in preventing aggregation of target …

Stress proteins: the biological functions in virus infection, present and challenges for target-based antiviral drug development

Q Wan, D Song, H Li, M He - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2020 - nature.com
Stress proteins (SPs) including heat-shock proteins (HSPs), RNA chaperones, and ER
associated stress proteins are molecular chaperones essential for cellular homeostasis. The …

Molecular signatures of beef tenderness: Underlying mechanisms based on integromics of protein biomarkers from multi-platform proteomics studies

M Gagaoua, EMC Terlouw, AM Mullen, D Franco… - Meat science, 2021 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, proteomics have been employed to decipher the underlying
factors contributing to variation in the quality of muscle foods, including beef tenderness …

Heat shock proteins in toxicology: how close and how far?

SC Gupta, A Sharma, M Mishra, RK Mishra… - Life sciences, 2010 - Elsevier
The response to stress triggers activation of the genes involved in cell survival and/or cell
death. Stress response is a ubiquitous feature of cells that is induced under stress …

HSP27, 70 and 90, anti-apoptotic proteins, in clinical cancer therapy

X Wang, M Chen, J Zhou… - … journal of oncology, 2014 - spandidos-publications.com
Among the heat shock proteins (HSP), HSP27, HSP70 and HSP90 are the most studied
stress-inducible HSPs, and are induced in response to a wide variety of physiological and …

Large potentials of small heat shock proteins

EV Mymrikov, AS Seit-Nebi… - Physiological …, 2011 - journals.physiology.org
Modern classification of the family of human small heat shock proteins (the so-called HSPB)
is presented, and the structure and properties of three members of this family are analyzed …

Low lamin A levels enhance confined cell migration and metastatic capacity in breast cancer

ES Bell, P Shah, N Zuela-Sopilniak, D Kim, AA Varlet… - Oncogene, 2022 - nature.com
Aberrations in nuclear size and shape are commonly used to identify cancerous tissue.
However, it remains unclear whether the disturbed nuclear structure directly contributes to …

Crystal structure and assembly of a eukaryotic small heat shock protein

RLM Van Montfort, E Basha, KL Friedrich… - Nature structural …, 2001 - nature.com
The 2.7 Å structure of wheat HSP16. 9, a member of the small heat shock proteins (sHSPs),
indicates how its α-crystallin domain and flanking extensions assemble into a dodecameric …

[HTML][HTML] The growing world of small heat shock proteins: from structure to functions

S Carra, S Alberti, PA Arrigo, JL Benesch… - Cell Stress and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are present in all kingdoms of life and play fundamental
roles in cell biology. sHSPs are key components of the cellular protein quality control …