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Yeast is selectively hypersensitised to heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90)-targetting drugs with heterologous expression of the human Hsp90beta, a property that can be exploited in screens for new Hsp90 chaperone inhibitors.
Gene - 2 Jan 2003
Piper Peter W, Panaretou Barry, Millson Stefan H, Truman Andrew, Mollapour Mehdi, Pearl Laurence H, Prodromou Chrisostomos
Abstract excerpt
Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is essential for activation of many of the most important regulatory proteins of eukaryotic cells. It is an extremely conserved protein, such that heterologous expressions of either human Hsp90beta or Caenorhabditis elegans Hsp90 will provide the essential Hsp90 function in yeast. The ability of these metazoan Hsp90s to provide this Hsp90 function to yeast cells requires Sti, a Hsp90...
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