Evolution and Diversity of Prokaryotic Small Heat Shock Proteins

CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

1994 • 63,397 citations

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

1987 • 59,130 citations

HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS, MOLECULAR CHAPERONES, AND THE STRESS RESPONSE: Evolutionary and Ecological Physiology

1999 • 4,041 citations

Quartet Puzzling: A Quartet Maximum-Likelihood Method for Reconstructing Tree Topologies

1996 • 2,613 citations

Combining evolutionary information and neural networks to predict protein secondary structure

1994 • 1,471 citations

Crystal structure of a small heat-shock protein

1998 • 876 citations

A small heat shock protein stably binds heat-denatured model substrates and can maintain a substrate in a folding-competent state

1997 • 772 citations

Binding of non-native protein to Hsp25 during heat shock creates a reservoir of folding intermediates for reactivation

1997 • 750 citations

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

1998 • 480 citations

Mycobacterial Stationary Phase Induced by Low Oxygen Tension: Cell Wall Thickening and Localization of the 16-Kilodalton α-Crystallin Homolog

1998 • 352 citations

The Small Heat-shock Protein IbpB from Escherichia coli Stabilizes Stress-denatured Proteins for Subsequent Refolding by a Multichaperone Network

1998 • 351 citations

The expanding small heat-shock protein family, and structure predictions of the conserved “α-crystallin domain”

1995 • 348 citations

Membrane physical state controls the signaling mechanism of the heat shock response in Synechocystis PCC 6803: Identification of hsp17 as a “fluidity gene”

1998 • 310 citations

Evolution of the chaperonin families (HSP60, HSP 10 and TCP‐1) of proteins and the origin of eukaryotic cells

1995 • 301 citations

Improved sensitivity of profile searches through the use of sequence weights and gap excision

1994 • 301 citations

Gene transfer, speciation, and the evolution of bacterial genomes

1999 • 255 citations

Stress Genes and Proteins in the Archaea

1999 • 219 citations

Heat Shock Protein 70 Family: Multiple Sequence Comparisons, Function, and Evolution

1998 • 199 citations

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1941 • 186 citations

Conservation among HSP60 sequences in relation to structure, function, and evolution

2000 • 177 citations

Multiple Small Heat Shock Proteins in Rhizobia

1999 • 105 citations

Molecular characterization of the gene encoding an 18-kilodalton small heat shock protein associated with the membrane of Leuconostoc oenos

1997 • 103 citations

Origin and Evolution of Eukaryotic Chaperonins: Phylogenetic Evidence for Ancient Duplications in CCT Genes

2000 • 95 citations

CotM of Bacillus subtilis, a member of the alpha-crystallin family of stress proteins, is induced during development and participates in spore outer coat formation

1997 • 90 citations

The diversification of plant cytosolic small heat shock proteins preceded the divergence of mosses

1999 • 82 citations

Phylogeny of the ?-crystallin-related heat-shock proteins

1992 • 73 citations

New insights into the phylogeny of eukaryotes based on ciliate Hsp70 sequences

1998 • 59 citations

The Bradyrhizobium japonicum rpoH1 gene encoding a sigma 32-like protein is part of a unique heat shock gene cluster together with groESL1 and three small heat shock genes

1996 • 52 citations

A 16 kDa protein family overexpressed by Streptococcus thermophilus PB18 in acid environments

1997 • 51 citations

Heat shock and development induce synthesis of a low-molecular-weight stress-responsive protein in the myxobacterium Stigmatella aurantiaca

1993 • 36 citations

The Unique Chaperone Operon of Thermotoga maritima : Cloning and Initial Characterization of a Functional Hsp70 and Small Heat Shock Protein

1999 • 21 citations

A novel dnaK operon from Porphyromonas gingivalis¹

1999 • 15 citations