Small heat-shock proteins: Important players in regulating cellular proteostasis

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 429-451

  Treweek, Teresa M ^a,b   Meehan, Sarah ^c   Ecroyd, Heath ^b,d   Carver, John A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b ILLAWARRA HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cataract; Molecular chaperone; Neurodegenerative disease; Protein aggregation; Proteostasis; Small heat shock protein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; CHAPERONE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN GENE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATARACT; CELL METABOLISM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27 GENE; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SMALL HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN GENE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEINOSIS;

MAMMALIA;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEOPLASMS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION, PATHOLOGICAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 84921340794     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 14209071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-014-1754-5     Document Type: Article

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