Small but mighty: a functional look at bacterial sHSPs
Igor Obuchowski, Krzysztof Liberek
Abstract
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are widespread in every kingdom of life, being indispensable for protein quality control networks. Alongside canonical chaperone functions, sHSPs seem to have been a very plastic scaffold for acquiring multiple related functions across evolution. This review aims to summarize what is known about sHSPs functioning in the Bacteria Kingdom.
Topics & Concepts
Chaperone (clinical)BiologyHeat shock proteinComputational biologyBacteriaEvolutionary biologyCell biologyGeneticsMedicineGenePathologyHeat shock proteins researchEnzyme Structure and FunctionProtein Structure and Dynamics