The HSP90 family: structure, regulation, function, and implications in health and disease

A Hoter, ME El-Sabban, HY Naim - International journal of molecular …, 2018 - mdpi.com
The mammalian HSP90 family of proteins is a cluster of highly conserved molecules that are
involved in myriad cellular processes. Their distribution in various cellular compartments …

Heat shock proteins and cancer

J Wu, T Liu, Z Rios, Q Mei, X Lin, S Cao - Trends in pharmacological …, 2017 - cell.com
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) constitute a large family of proteins involved in protein folding
and maturation whose expression is induced by heat shock or other stressors. The major …

Targeting heat shock proteins in cancer: a promising therapeutic approach

S Chatterjee, TF Burns - International journal of molecular sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a large family of chaperones that are involved in protein
folding and maturation of a variety of “client” proteins protecting them from degradation …

Heat shock proteins: agents of cancer development and therapeutic targets in anti-cancer therapy

CW Yun, HJ Kim, JH Lim, SH Lee - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) constitute a large family of molecular chaperones classified by
their molecular weights, and they include HSP27, HSP40, HSP60, HSP70, and HSP90 …

Mammalian heat shock response and mechanisms underlying its genome-wide transcriptional regulation

DB Mahat, HH Salamanca, FM Duarte, CG Danko… - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
The heat shock response (HSR) is critical for survival of all organisms. However, its scope,
extent, and the molecular mechanism of regulation are poorly understood. Here we show …

HSP90AA1-mediated autophagy promotes drug resistance in osteosarcoma

X Xiao, W Wang, Y Li, D Yang, X Li, C Shen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - Springer
Background Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone tumor in children and
adolescents. Unfortunately, osteosarcoma treatments often fail due to the development of …

The HSP70 chaperone machinery: J proteins as drivers of functional specificity

HH Kampinga, EA Craig - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2010 - nature.com
Heat shock 70 kDa proteins (HSP70s) are ubiquitous molecular chaperones that function in
a myriad of biological processes, modulating polypeptide folding, degradation and …

Whole genome analysis of a schistosomiasis-transmitting freshwater snail

CM Adema, LDW Hillier, CS Jones, ES Loker… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Biomphalaria snails are instrumental in transmission of the human blood fluke Schistosoma
mansoni. With the World Health Organization's goal to eliminate schistosomiasis as a global …

Folding or holding?—Hsp70 and Hsp90 chaperoning of misfolded proteins in neurodegenerative disease

BS Rutledge, WY Choy, ML Duennwald - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - ASBMB
The toxic accumulation of misfolded proteins as inclusions, fibrils, or aggregates is a
hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases. However, how molecular chaperones, such …

Heat shock proteins and HSF1 in cancer

AM Cyran, A Zhitkovich - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Fitness of cells is dependent on protein homeostasis which is maintained by cooperative
activities of protein chaperones and proteolytic machinery. Upon encountering protein …