The immunology of cellular stress proteins

• Autor principal: Cristina Bonorino (auth)
• Outros Autores: Willem Van Eden (auth), Ruurd Van Der Zee (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• coleção: Frontiers Research Topics
• Assuntos: Medicine; Autoimmunity; Heat shock proteins; T cells; T cell regulation; Cancer
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Stress proteins or heat-shock proteins (HSP) are evolutionary conserved proteins present in every prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell. Their main function is to protect cells and proteins from damage under stressful circumstances. The latter circumstances do include the cell and protein damaging effects...