Targeting heat shock proteins in cancer: a promising therapeutic approach

S Chatterjee, TF Burns - International journal of molecular sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a large family of chaperones that are involved in protein
folding and maturation of a variety of “client” proteins protecting them from degradation …

HSP70 multi-functionality in cancer

Z Albakova, GA Armeev, LM Kanevskiy, EI Kovalenko… - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The 70-kDa heat shock proteins (HSP70s) are abundantly present in cancer, providing
malignant cells selective advantage by suppressing multiple apoptotic pathways, regulating …

Heat shock proteins promote cancer: it's a protection racket

SK Calderwood, J Gong - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2016 - cell.com
Heat shock proteins (HSP) are expressed at high levels in cancer and form a fostering
environment that is essential for tumor development. Here, we review the recent data in this …

[HTML][HTML] The human HSP70 family of chaperones: where do we stand?

J Radons - Cell Stress and Chaperones, 2016 - Elsevier
The 70-kDa heat shock protein (HSP70) family of molecular chaperones represents one of
the most ubiquitous classes of chaperones and is highly conserved in all organisms …

The role of heat shock proteins in cancer

GD Lianos, GA Alexiou, A Mangano, A Mangano… - Cancer letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are an evolutionary family of proteins that act as molecular
chaperones. According to their size they have been classified into the following families; …

The chaperone-assisted selective autophagy complex dynamics and dysfunctions

B Tedesco, L Vendredy, V Timmerman, A Poletti - Autophagy, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Each protein must be synthesized with the correct amino acid sequence, folded into its
native structure, and transported to a relevant subcellular location and protein complex. If …

The functions and regulation of heat shock proteins; key orchestrators of proteostasis and the heat shock response

BJ Lang, ME Guerrero, TL Prince, Y Okusha… - Archives of …, 2021 - Springer
Cells respond to protein-damaging (proteotoxic) stress by activation of the Heat Shock
Response (HSR). The HSR provides cells with an enhanced ability to endure proteotoxic …

Heat shock proteins regulatory role in neurodevelopment

DJ Miller, PE Fort - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Heat shock proteins (Hsps) are a large family of molecular chaperones that are well-known
for their roles in protein maturation, re-folding and degradation. While some Hsps are …

Breaking BAG: the co-chaperone BAG3 in health and disease

C Behl - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2016 - cell.com
Human BAG (Bcl-2-associated athanogene) proteins form a family of antiapoptotic proteins
that currently consists of six members (BAG1–6) all sharing the BAG protein domain from …

The role of the multifunctional BAG3 protein in cellular protein quality control and in disease

E Stürner, C Behl - Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In neurons, but also in all other cells the complex proteostasis network is monitored and
tightly regulated by the cellular protein quality control (PQC) system. Beyond folding of newly …