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BAG3: a new player in the heart failure paradigm.
Heart failure reviews - 1 Jul 2015
Knezevic Tijana, Myers Valerie D, Gordon Jennifer, Tilley Douglas G, Sharp Thomas E, Wang JuFang, Khalili Kamel, Cheung Joseph Y, Feldman Arthur M
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BAG3 is a cellular protein that is expressed predominantly in skeletal and cardiac muscle but can also be found in the brain and in the peripheral nervous system. BAG3 functions in the cell include: serving as a co-chaperone with members of the heat-shock protein family of proteins to facilitate the removal of misfolded and degraded proteins, inhibiting apoptosis by interacting with Bcl2 and maintaining the...
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