James R Partridge, Laura A Lavery ... David A Agard
Cytosolic and organellar Hsp90s from higher eukaryotes have evolved a variable, and environmentally responsive N-terminal extension to regulate their activity.
Human cells adapt to chronic mild stresses, such as slightly elevated temperature, by getting larger in a process that couples increased translation to increased cell size in an Hsp90-dependent manner.
Laura-Marie Silbermann, Benjamin Vermeer ... Katarzyna Tych
An exploration of the unanswered questions in how the molecular chaperone Hsp90 supports protein homeostasis, and how single-molecule techniques could drive future breakthroughs in answering them.
NMR-based flux measurements show that both bacterial and human Hsp70 chaperones interact with helical, as well as sheet substrates predominantly through a conformational selection mechanism.
Agnieszka Kłosowska, Tomasz Chamera, Krzysztof Liberek
Hsp70 chaperone provides Hsp104 with high efficiency in disaggregation and specificity towards aggregated substrates at the, otherwise limiting, cellular concentrations of adenine nucleotides.
Julia M Flynn, Ammeret Rossouw ... Daniel NA Bolon
Environmental conditions strongly impact the fitness effects of Hsp90, resulting in the selection of Hsp90 sequences in nature that are robust to a variety of stressful conditions.