Defined sequence segments of the small heat shock proteins HSP25 and αB-crystallin inhibit actin polymerization
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Defined sequence segments of the small heat shock proteins HSP25 and alphaB-crystallin inhibit actin polymerization.
The interaction of small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) with the actin cytoskeleton has been described and some members of this family, e.g. chicken and murine HSP25 (HSP27), inhibit the polymerization of actin in vitro. To analyse the molecular basis of this interaction, we synthesized a set of overlapping peptides covering the complete sequence of murine HSP25 and tested the effect of these pept...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Biochemistry
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0014-2956
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.02082.x