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Fungal Hsp90: a biological transistor that tunes cellular outputs to thermal inputs.

ABSTRACT: Heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) is an essential, abundant and ubiquitous eukaryotic chaperone that has crucial roles in protein folding and modulates the activities of key regulators. The fungal Hsp90 interactome, which includes numerous client proteins such as receptors, protein kinases and transcription factors, displays a surprisingly high degree of plasticity that depends on environmental conditions. Furthermore, although fungal Hsp90 levels increase following environmental challenges, Hsp90 activity is tightly controlled via post-translational regulation and an autoregulatory loop involving heat shock transcription factor 1 (Hsf1). In this Review, we discuss the roles and regulation of fungal Hsp90. We propose that Hsp90 acts as a biological transistor that modulates the activity of fungal signalling networks in response to environmental cues via this Hsf1-Hsp90 autoregulatory loop.

SUBMITTER: Leach MD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3660702 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Fungal Hsp90: a biological transistor that tunes cellular outputs to thermal inputs.

Leach Michelle D MD Klipp Edda E Cowen Leah E LE Brown Alistair J P AJ

Nature reviews. Microbiology 20121001 10

Heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) is an essential, abundant and ubiquitous eukaryotic chaperone that has crucial roles in protein folding and modulates the activities of key regulators. The fungal Hsp90 interactome, which includes numerous client proteins such as receptors, protein kinases and transcription factors, displays a surprisingly high degree of plasticity that depends on environmental conditions. Furthermore, although fungal Hsp90 levels increase following environmental challenges, Hsp90 a ...[more]

PMID: 22976491

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