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SUBMITTER: Ventura M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1932816 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ventura Marco M Canchaya Carlos C Zhang Ziding Z Fitzgerald Gerald F GF van Sinderen Douwe D
Applied and environmental microbiology 20070518 14
Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are members of a diverse family of stress proteins that are important in cells to protect proteins under stressful conditions. Genome analysis of Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 revealed a single sHSP-encoding gene, which was classified as a hsp20 gene by comparative analyses. Genomic surveillance of available genome sequences indicated that hsp20 homologs are not widely distributed in bacteria. In members of the genus Bifidobacterium, this gene appears to be pres ...[more]