Small heat-shock protein family: Function in health and disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 851, Issue , 1998, Pages 28-35

  Welsh, Michael J ^a,c   Gaestel, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; GLUTATHIONE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; OLIGOMER;

APOPTOSIS; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; HEALTH; HUNGARY; MICROFILAMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SERTOLI CELL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WORKSHOP;

EID: 0031849099     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb08973.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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