Small heat shock proteins potentiate amyloid dissolution by protein disaggregases from yeast and humans.

How small heat shock proteins (sHsps) might empower proteostasis networks to control beneficial prions or disassemble pathological amyloid is unknown. Here, we establish that yeast sHsps, Hsp26 and Hsp42, inhibit prionogenesis by the [PSI+] prion protein, Sup35, via distinct and synergistic mechanis...

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Main Authors: Martin L Duennwald, Analisa Echeverria, James Shorter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3378601?pdf=render