Small heat shock proteins: Molecular structure and chaperone function

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 2460-2476

  Sun, Y ^a   MacRae, T H ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amino and carboxy terminal extensions; Chaperoning; Molecular chaperones; Oligomerization; Small heat shock proteins; Stress resistance; The crystallin domain

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; OLIGOMER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA SHEET; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRYSTALLIZATION; CYTOSKELETON; DIMERIZATION; GENE MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STRESS; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS, SMALL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 29144527460     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-005-5190-4     Document Type: Review

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