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SUBMITTER: Perez-Morales D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4529861 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cell stress & chaperones 20150605 5
The natural life cycle of many protozoan and helminth parasites involves exposure to several hostile environmental conditions. Under these circumstances, the parasites arouse a cellular stress response that involves the expression of heat shock proteins (HSPs). Small HSPs (sHSPs) constitute one of the main families of HSPs. The sHSPs are very divergent at the sequence level, but their secondary and tertiary structures are conserved and some of its members are related to α-crystallin from vertebr ...[more]