Targeting biomolecular condensation and protein aggregation against cancer

JL Silva, D Foguel, VF Ferreira, TCRG Vieira… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Biomolecular condensates, membrane-less entities arising from liquid–liquid phase
separation, hold dichotomous roles in health and disease. Alongside their physiological …

HSP70 multi-functionality in cancer

Z Albakova, GA Armeev, LM Kanevskiy, EI Kovalenko… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The 70-kDa heat shock proteins (HSP70s) are abundantly present in cancer, providing
malignant cells selective advantage by suppressing multiple apoptotic pathways, regulating …

Structure of Hsp90–Hsp70–Hop–GR reveals the Hsp90 client-loading mechanism

RYR Wang, CM Noddings, E Kirschke, AG Myasnikov… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Maintaining a healthy proteome is fundamental for the survival of all organisms. Integral to
this are Hsp90 and Hsp70, molecular chaperones that together facilitate the folding …

HSP90 mediates the connection of multiple programmed cell death in diseases

C Peng, F Zhao, H Li, L Li, Y Yang, F Liu - Cell death & disease, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Heat shock protein (HSP) 90, an important component of the molecular chaperone
network, is closely concerned with cellular signaling pathways and stress response by …

Recent advances in understanding catalysis of protein folding by molecular chaperones

D Balchin, M Hayer‐Hartl, FU Hartl - FEBS letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular chaperones are highly conserved proteins that promote proper folding of other
proteins in vivo. Diverse chaperone systems assist de novo protein folding and trafficking …

Bacterial Hsp70 resolves misfolded states and accelerates productive folding of a multi-domain protein

R Imamoglu, D Balchin, M Hayer-Hartl… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The ATP-dependent Hsp70 chaperones (DnaK in E. coli) mediate protein folding in
cooperation with J proteins and nucleotide exchange factors (E. coli DnaJ and GrpE …

HSP70 and HSP90 in cancer: cytosolic, endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondrial chaperones of tumorigenesis

Z Albakova, Y Mangasarova, A Albakov… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
HSP70 and HSP90 are two powerful chaperone machineries involved in survival and
proliferation of tumor cells. Residing in various cellular compartments, HSP70 and HSP90 …

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer at the single-molecule level

T Ha, J Fei, S Schmid, NK Lee… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a powerful spectroscopic method for
measuring distances in the 2–8 nm range. Often, conformational changes and molecular …

Client binding shifts the populations of dynamic Hsp90 conformations through an allosteric network

A Lopez, V Dahiya, F Delhommel, L Freiburger… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Hsp90 is a molecular chaperone that interacts with a specific set of client proteins and
assists their folding. The underlying molecular mechanisms, involving dynamic transitions …

Anti-oxidative, anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic effects of flavonols: targeting Nrf2, NF-κB and p53 pathways in neurodegeneration

M Jazvinšćak Jembrek, N Oršolić, L Mandić, A Sadžak… - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Neurodegenerative diseases are one of the leading causes of disability and death
worldwide. Intracellular transduction pathways that end in the activation of specific …