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ReviewCell stress & chaperones2020

Structural aspects of the human small heat shock proteins related to their functional activities.

Wilbert C Boelens

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Review in Cell stress & chaperones, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Small heat shock proteins and biomolecular condensates.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026
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  20. Evaluation of the Small Heat Shock Protein Family MembersInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wilbert C BoelensDepartment of Biomolecular Chemistry 284, Institute for Molecules and Materials (IMM), Radboud University, PO Box 9101, NL-6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. w.boelens@ncmls.ru.nl.
Radboud University Nijmegen · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small heat shock proteins function as chaperones by binding unfolding substrate proteins in an ATP-independent manner to keep them in a folding-competent state and to prevent irreversible aggregation. They play crucial roles in diseases that are characterized by protein aggregation, such as neurodegenerative and neuromuscular diseases, but are also involved in cataract, cancer, and congenital disorders. For this reason, these proteins are interesting therapeutic targets for finding molecules that could affect the chaperone activity or compensate specific mutations. This review will give an overview of the available knowledge on the structural complexity of human small heat shock proteins, which may aid in the search for such therapeutic molecules.

Indexed as

Heat-Shock Proteins, SmallHumansProtein ConformationProtein FoldingProtein MultimerizationHeat-Shock Proteins, SmallChaperone activityOligomerizationProtein aggregationSmall heat shock proteinsα-Crystallin

Identifiers

PMID32253739
PMCPMC7332592
OpenAlexW3014903588

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