Chaperone function and mechanism of small heat-shock proteins

The potential role of small heat shock proteins in mitochondria

(2013) Liuwang Zeng et al.   CELLULAR SIGNALLING

Phenotype of Cardiomyopathy in Cardiac-specific Heat Shock Protein B8 K141N Transgenic Mouse

(2013) Atsushi Sanbe et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Small Heat Shock Protein IbpB Acts as a Robust Chaperone in Living Cells by Hierarchically Activating Its Multi-type Substrate-binding Residues

(2013) Xinmiao Fu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

In VivoSubstrate Diversity and Preference of Small Heat Shock Protein IbpB as Revealed by Using a Genetically Incorporated Photo-cross-linker

(2013) Xinmiao Fu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

An Unusual Dimeric Small Heat Shock Protein Provides Insight into the Mechanism of This Class of Chaperones

(2013) Eman Basha et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Regulated structural transitions unleash the chaperone activity of  B-crystallin

(2013) J. Peschek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Probing the transient interaction between the small heat-shock protein Hsp21 and a model substrate protein using crosslinking mass spectrometry

(2012) Wietske Lambert et al.   CELL STRESS & CHAPERONES

Dissecting Heterogeneous Molecular Chaperone Complexes Using a Mass Spectrum Deconvolution Approach

(2012) Florian Stengel et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY

The Role of Intrinsically Disordered Regions in the Structure and Functioning of Small Heat Shock Proteins

(2012) Maria V. Sudnitsyna et al.   CURRENT PROTEIN & PEPTIDE SCIENCE

Small heat shock protein expression and functions during development

(2012) Geneviève Morrow et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Small heat shock protein AgsA: An effective stabilizer of enzyme activities

(2012) Toshifumi Tomoyasu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCE AND BIOENGINEERING

Structural Studies on the Oligomeric Transition of a Small Heat Shock Protein, StHsp14.0

(2012) Yuya Hanazono et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

ZmHSP16.9, a cytosolic class I small heat shock protein in maize (Zea mays), confers heat tolerance in transgenic tobacco

(2012) Liping Sun et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

Alternative bacterial two-component small heat shock protein systems

(2012) A. Bepperling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nonequivalence Observed for the 16-Meric Structure of a Small Heat Shock Protein, SpHsp16.0, from Schizosaccharomyces pombe

(2012) Yuya Hanazono et al.   STRUCTURE

Small Heat Shock Proteins Potentiate Amyloid Dissolution by Protein Disaggregases from Yeast and Humans

(2012) Martin L. Duennwald et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Biochemical characterization of small heat shock protein HspB8 (Hsp22)–Bag3 interaction

(2011) Anton A. Shemetov et al.   ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

Overexpression of a chloroplast-localized small heat shock protein OsHSP26 confers enhanced tolerance against oxidative and heat stresses in tall fescue

(2011) Kyung-Hee Kim et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS

H11 Kinase/Heat Shock Protein 22 Deletion Impairs Both Nuclear and Mitochondrial Functions of STAT3 and Accelerates the Transition Into Heart Failure on Cardiac Overload

(2011) Hongyu Qiu et al.   CIRCULATION

Small heat shock protein AgsA forms dynamic fibrils

(2011) Xiaodong Shi et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Importance of N- and C-terminal Regions of IbpA,Escherichia coliSmall Heat Shock Protein, for Chaperone Function and Oligomerization

(2011) Joanna Stróżecka et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Molecular chaperones in protein folding and proteostasis

(2011) F. Ulrich Hartl et al.   NATURE

Small heat shock proteins and α-crystallins: dynamic proteins with flexible functions

(2011) Eman Basha et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

Small Heat Shock Proteins and Protein-Misfolding Diseases

(2010) Ewa Laskowska et al.   CURRENT PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Mechanistic Differences between Two Conserved Classes of Small Heat Shock Proteins Found in the Plant Cytosol

(2010) Eman Basha et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Hsp12 Is an Intrinsically Unstructured Stress Protein that Folds upon Membrane Association and Modulates Membrane Function

(2010) Sylvia Welker et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The Heat Shock Response: Life on the Verge of Death

(2010) Klaus Richter et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Small heat-shock proteins interact with a flanking domain to suppress polyglutamine aggregation

(2010) A. L. Robertson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quaternary dynamics and plasticity underlie small heat shock protein chaperone function

(2010) F. Stengel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The mycobacterium tuberculosis small heat shock protein Hsp16.3 exposes hydrophobic surfaces at mild conditions: Conformational flexibility and molecular chaperone activity

(2010) Hongmei Yang et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Substrate binding site flexibility of the small heat shock protein molecular chaperones

(2009) N. Jaya et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The dramatically increased chaperone activity of small heat-shock protein IbpB is retained for an extended period of time after the stress condition is removed

(2008) Wangwang Jiao et al.   BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL

The recent evolution of a pseudogene: diversity and divergence of a mitochondria-localized small heat shock protein in Arabidopsis thaliana

(2008) Elizabeth R. Waters et al.   GENOME

Insights into Small Heat Shock Protein and Substrate Structure during Chaperone Action Derived from Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange and Mass Spectrometry

(2008) Guilong Cheng et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A Mutant Small Heat Shock Protein with Increased Thylakoid Association Provides an Elevated Resistance Against UV-B Damage inSynechocystis6803

(2008) Zsolt Balogi et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Structural Dynamics of Archaeal Small Heat Shock Proteins

(2008) Martin Haslbeck et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Activation of the Chaperone Hsp26 Is Controlled by the Rearrangement of Its Thermosensor Domain

(2008) Titus M. Franzmann et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Role of the IXI/V motif in oligomer assembly and function of StHsp14.0, a small heat shock protein from the acidothermophilic archaeon,Sulfolobus tokodaii strain 7

(2007) Hitoshi Saji et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS