Essential structural and functional features of small heat shock proteins in molecular chaperoning process

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 613-622

  Kocabiyik, Semra ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chaperone activity; Heat shock; Hyperthermophilic archaea; Small heat shock porteins

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN FOLDING;

ARCHAEA; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS, SMALL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 67650155241     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986609788490249     Document Type: Article

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