A first line of stress defense: small heat shock proteins and their function in protein homeostasis

M Haslbeck, E Vierling - Journal of molecular biology, 2015 - Elsevier
Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are virtually ubiquitous molecular chaperones that can
prevent the irreversible aggregation of denaturing proteins. sHsps complex with a variety of …

Small heat shock proteins: Simplicity meets complexity

M Haslbeck, S Weinkauf, J Buchner - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2019 - ASBMB
Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are a ubiquitous and ancient family of ATP-independent
molecular chaperones. A key characteristic of sHsps is that they exist in ensembles of iso …

Cellular functions and mechanisms of action of small heat shock proteins

A Mogk, C Ruger-Herreros… - Annual review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) constitute a diverse chaperone family that shares the α-
crystallin domain, which is flanked by variable, disordered N-and C-terminal extensions …

Competing protein-protein interactions regulate binding of Hsp27 to its client protein tau

R Freilich, M Betegon, E Tse, SA Mok, O Julien… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are a class of oligomeric molecular chaperones that limit
protein aggregation. However, it is often not clear where sHSPs bind on their client proteins …

Functional principles and regulation of molecular chaperones

V Dahiya, J Buchner - Advances in protein chemistry and structural biology, 2019 - Elsevier
To be able to perform their biological function, a protein needs to be correctly folded into its
three dimensional structure. The protein folding process is spontaneous and does not …

Catchers of folding gone awry: a tale of small heat shock proteins

C Peters, M Haslbeck, J Buchner - Trends in Biochemical Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are an important part of the cellular system maintaining
protein homeostasis under physiological and stress conditions. As molecular chaperones …

The role of EMC during membrane protein biogenesis

PJ Chitwood, RS Hegde - Trends in Cell Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Ten years ago, high-throughput genetic interaction analyses revealed an abundant and
widely conserved protein complex residing in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane …

Phosphorylation activates the yeast small heat shock protein Hsp26 by weakening domain contacts in the oligomer ensemble

M Mühlhofer, C Peters, T Kriehuber… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Hsp26 is a small heat shock protein (sHsp) from S. cerevisiae. Its chaperone activity is
activated by oligomer dissociation at heat shock temperatures. Hsp26 contains 9 …

A novel mechanism for small heat shock proteins to function as molecular chaperones

K Zhang, AN Ezemaduka, Z Wang, H Hu, X Shi, C Liu… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are molecular chaperones ubiquitously present in all
forms of life, but their function mechanisms remain controversial. Here we show by cryo …

Regrowth-delay body as a bacterial subcellular structure marking multidrug-tolerant persisters

J Yu, Y Liu, H Yin, Z Chang - Cell discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Bacteria have long been recognized to be capable of entering a phenotypically non-growing
persister state, in which the cells exhibit an extended regrowth lag and a multidrug …