Small Stress Proteins Book

Evolution and Diversity of Prokaryotic Small Heat Shock Proteins.- Discovery of Two Distinct Small Heat Shock Protein (HSP) Families in the Desert Fish Poeciliopsis.- Chaperone Function of sHSPs.- The Small Heat Shock Proteins of the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.- Drosophila Small Heat Shock Proteins.- The Developmental Expression of Small HSP.- Expression and Phosphorylation of Mammalian Small Heat Shock Proteins.- sHsp-Phosphorylation: Enzymes, Signaling Pathways and Functional Implications.- Small Stress Proteins: Modulation of Intracellular Redox State and Protection Against Oxidative Stress.- Small Stress Proteins: Novel Regulators of Apoptosis Induced Independently of Reactive Oxygen Species.- Hsp27 as Prognostic and Predictive Factor in Cancer.- Cytoskeletal Competence Requires Protein Chaperones.- Hsp27 in the Nervous System: Expression in Pathophysiology and in the Aging Brain.- Protection of Neuronal and Cardiac Cells by Hsp27.