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

1998 • 1,061 citations

Crystal structure of a small heat-shock protein

1998 • 876 citations

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

1995 • 631 citations

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

1993 • 494 citations

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

1994 • 493 citations

Genealogy of the α-crystallin—small heat-shock protein superfamily

1998 • 480 citations

HSP27 phosphorylation-mediated resistance against actin fragmentation and cell death induced by oxidative stress.

1996 • 471 citations

Chaperone activity of alpha-crystallins modulates intermediate filament assembly.

1994 • 415 citations

Structure and Modifications of the Junior Chaperone α‐Crystallin

1994 • 374 citations

Dynamic changes in the structure and intracellular locale of the mammalian low-molecular-weight heat shock protein.

1988 • 356 citations

Alpha B-crystallin in cardiac tissue. Association with actin and desmin filaments.

1992 • 302 citations

The small heat-shock protein, αb-crystallin, has a variable quaternary structure

1998 • 286 citations

Purification and characterization of a 20-kDa protein that is highly homologous to alpha B crystallin.

1994 • 217 citations

Cyclic Nucleotide-dependent Vasorelaxation Is Associated with the Phosphorylation of a Small Heat Shock-related Protein

1997 • 142 citations

MKBP, a Novel Member of the Small Heat Shock Protein Family, Binds and Activates the Myotonic Dystrophy Protein Kinase

1998 • 137 citations

Abundance and Location of the Small Heat Shock Proteins HSP25 and αB-Crystallin in Rat and Human Heart

1997 • 135 citations

Oxidant stress increases heat shock protein 70 mRNA in isolated perfused rat heart

1994 • 123 citations

The serum‐induced phosphorylation of mammalian hsp27 correlates with changes in its intracellular localization and levels of oligomerization

1994 • 114 citations

Tumor necrosis factor‐α induces changes in the phosphorylation, cellular localization, and oligomerization of human hsp27, a stress protein that confers cellular resistance to this cytokine

1995 • 114 citations

Ischemia-induced phosphorylation and translocation of stress protein αB-crystallin to Z lines of myocardium

1998 • 107 citations

The mammalian small heat‐shock protein Hsp20 forms dimers and is a poor chaperone

1998 • 98 citations

Sense and antisense modification of glial alpha B-crystallin production results in alterations of stress fiber formation and thermoresistance.

1994 • 97 citations

αB-crystallin and hsp25 in neonatal cardiac cells — differences in cellular localization under stress conditions

1998 • 93 citations

Identification and Characterization of the Gene Encoding a New Member of the α-Crystallin/Small hsp Family, Closely Linked to the αB-Crystallin Gene in a Head-to-Head Manner

1997 • 92 citations

Binding of Cytosolic Proteins to Myofibrils in Ischemic Rat Hearts

1996 • 89 citations

The phosphorylation sites of the B2 chain of bovine α-crystallin

1987 • 77 citations

Dynamic Changes in Intracellular Localization and Isoforms of the 27-kD Stress Protein in Human Keratinocytes

1994 • 63 citations

Cardiac alpha-crystallin

1990 • 62 citations

Distinct effects of heat shock and ATP depletion on distribution and isoform patterns of human Hsp27 in endothelial cells

1996 • 59 citations

Translocation and induction of αB crystallin by heat shock in rat glioma (GA-1) cells

1992 • 55 citations

HspB3, the most deviating of the six known human small heat shock proteins

1998 • 50 citations

Fatal attraction: When chaperone turns harlot

1999 • 48 citations

Relationship between calcium loading and impaired energy metabolism during Na+, K+ pump inhibition and metabolic inhibition in cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes.

1989 • 47 citations

cDNA cloning of a 20-kDa protein (p20) highly homologous to small heat shock proteins: developmental and physiological changes in rat hindlimb muscles

1996 • 42 citations

Relocalization of αB‐crystallin by heat shock in ovarian carcinoma cells

1992 • 40 citations

HSP27 and HSP70 increase the survival of WEHI-S cells exposed to hyperthermia

1996 • 39 citations

Immunofluorescent localization of desmin and vimentin in developing cardiac muscle of Syrian hamster

1989 • 26 citations

Rat Hsp20 Confers Thermoresistance in a Clonal Survival Assay, but Fails to Protect Coexpressed Luciferase in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells

1999 • 23 citations

HSP25 in isolated perfused rat hearts: Localization and response to hyperthermia

1996 • 21 citations

HSP25 in isolated perfused rat hearts: Localization and response to hyperthermia

1996 • 18 citations

Determination of ?B crystallin aggregation: A new alternative method to assess ischemic damage of the heart

1992 • 12 citations