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 …

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 …

Artificial transmembrane ion transporters as potential therapeutics

J Yang, G Yu, JL Sessler, I Shin, PA Gale, F Huang - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
Various artificial transmembrane transporters, designed to function through mobile carrier or
channel mechanisms, have been developed in the past decade. With the aid of structural …

Discovery of norbornene as a novel hydrophobic tag applied in protein degradation

S Xie, F Zhan, J Zhu, Y Sun, H Zhu, J Liu… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrophobic tagging (HyT) is a potential therapeutic strategy for targeted protein
degradation (TPD). Norbornene was discovered as an unprecedented hydrophobic tag in …

[HTML][HTML] The human HSP70 family of chaperones: where do we stand?

J Radons - Cell Stress and Chaperones, 2016 - Elsevier
The 70-kDa heat shock protein (HSP70) family of molecular chaperones represents one of
the most ubiquitous classes of chaperones and is highly conserved in all organisms …

Choose and use your chemical probe wisely to explore cancer biology

J Blagg, P Workman - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
Small-molecule chemical probes or tools have become progressively more important in
recent years as valuable reagents to investigate fundamental biological mechanisms and …

Targeting Hsp70: A possible therapy for cancer

S Kumar, J Stokes III, UP Singh, KS Gunn, A Acharya… - Cancer letters, 2016 - Elsevier
In all organisms, heat-shock proteins (HSPs) provide an ancient defense system. These
proteins act as molecular chaperones by assisting proper folding and refolding of misfolded …

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 …

A synthetic ion transporter that disrupts autophagy and induces apoptosis by perturbing cellular chloride concentrations

N Busschaert, SH Park, KH Baek, YP Choi, J Park… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Perturbations in cellular chloride concentrations can affect cellular pH and autophagy and
lead to the onset of apoptosis. With this in mind, synthetic ion transporters have been used to …

Heat shock protein 70 (hsp70) as an emerging drug target

CG Evans, L Chang, JE Gestwicki - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70a) is a molecular chaperone that is expressed in response to
stress. In this role, Hsp70 binds to its protein substrates and stabilize them against …