[HTML][HTML] Small heat shock proteins: role in cellular functions and pathology

R Bakthisaran, R Tangirala, CM Rao - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2015 - Elsevier
Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are conserved across species and are important in stress
tolerance. Many sHsps exhibit chaperone-like activity in preventing aggregation of target …

Facing and overcoming sensitivity challenges in biomolecular NMR spectroscopy

JH Ardenkjaer‐Larsen, GS Boebinger… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In the Spring of 2013, NMR spectroscopists convened at the Weizmann Institute in Israel to
brainstorm on approaches to improve the sensitivity of NMR experiments, particularly when …

13C Direct Detected NMR for Challenging Systems

IC Felli, R Pierattelli - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Thanks to recent improvements in NMR spectrometer hardware and pulse sequence design,
modern 13C NMR has become a useful tool for biomolecular applications. The complete …

The chaperone αB-crystallin uses different interfaces to capture an amorphous and an amyloid client

A Mainz, J Peschek, M Stavropoulou, KC Back… - Nature structural & …, 2015 - nature.com
Small heat-shock proteins, including αB-crystallin (αB), play an important part in protein
homeostasis, because their ATP-independent chaperone activity inhibits uncontrolled …

Mechanisms of small heat shock proteins

MK Janowska, HER Baughman… - Cold Spring …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are ATP-independent chaperones that delay formation of
harmful protein aggregates. sHSPs' role in protein homeostasis has been appreciated for …

Local unfolding of the HSP27 monomer regulates chaperone activity

TR Alderson, J Roche, HY Gastall, DM Dias… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The small heat-shock protein HSP27 is a redox-sensitive molecular chaperone that is
expressed throughout the human body. Here, we describe redox-induced changes to the …

Neuromuscular diseases due to chaperone mutations: a review and some new results

J Sarparanta, PH Jonson, S Kawan, B Udd - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Skeletal muscle and the nervous system depend on efficient protein quality control, and they
express chaperones and cochaperones at high levels to maintain protein homeostasis …

Environmental factors modulating protein conformations and their role in protein aggregation diseases

S Devi, M Chaturvedi, S Fatima, S Priya - Toxicology, 2022 - Elsevier
The adverse physiological conditions have been long known to impact protein synthesis,
folding and functionality. Major physiological factors such as the effect of pH, temperature …

α-Crystallins in the vertebrate eye lens: Complex oligomers and molecular chaperones

MA Sprague-Piercy, MA Rocha… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
α-Crystallins are small heat-shock proteins that act as holdase chaperones. In humans, αA-
crystallin is expressed only in the eye lens, while αB-crystallin is found in many tissues. α …

Structure and function of α-crystallins: Traversing from in vitro to in vivo

M Haslbeck, J Peschek, J Buchner… - Biochimica et Biophysica …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background The two α-crystallins (αA-and αB-crystallin) are major components of our eye
lenses. Their key function there is to preserve lens transparency which is a challenging task …