The small heat shock proteins Hsp20 and αB-crystallin in cultured cardiac myocytes: differences in cellular localization and solubilization after heat stress

A missense mutation in the αB-crystallin chaperone gene causes a desmin-related myopathy

Patrick Vicart, Anne Caron, Pascale Guicheney et al. · Nature Genetics · 1998 · 1.1K citations

Genetic Disorder, Genetics, Missense Mutation +6

Crystal structure of a small heat-shock protein

Kyeong Kyu Kim, Rosalind Kim, Sung‐Hou Kim · Nature · 1998 · 889 citations

Crystal Structure, Protein X-ray Crystallography, Molecular Biology +3

Modulation of Cellular Thermoresistance and Actin Filament Stability Accompanies Phosphorylation-Induced Changes in the Oligomeric Structure of Heat Shock Protein 27

Josée N. Lavoie, Herman Lambert, Eileen Hickey et al. · Molecular and Cellular Biology · 1995 · 619 citations · Full text

Induction of Chinese hamster HSP27 gene expression in mouse cells confers resistance to heat shock. HSP27 stabilization of the microfilament organization.

Josée N. Lavoie, Geneviève Gingras-Breton, Robert M. Tanguay et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1993 · 488 citations · Full text

Molecular Regulation, Molecular Biology, Microfilament Organization +19

Phosphorylation and supramolecular organization of murine small heat shock protein HSP25 abolish its actin polymerization-inhibiting activity.

Rainer Benndorf, Sergey Ryazantsev, Martin Wieske et al. · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 1994 · 486 citations · Full text

Protein Assembly, Molecular Biology, Cytoskeleton +16