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RNA Interference-based Investigation of the Function of Heat Shock Protein 27 during Corneal Epithelial Wound Healing
Published on: September 27, 2016
Heat shock protein 27 phosphorylation state is associated with cancer progression
Maria Katsogiannou1, Claudia Andrieu1, Palma Rocchi1
1Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unités Mixtes de Recherche 1068, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille Marseille, France ; Institut Paoli-Calmettes Marseille, France ; Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale Unités Mixtes de Recherche 1068, Aix-Marseille Université Marseille, France ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unités Mixtes de Recherche 7258, Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Marseille Marseille, France.
Abstract:
Understanding the mechanisms that control stress-induced survival is critical to explain how tumors frequently resist to treatment and to improve current anti-cancer therapies. Cancer cells are able to cope with stress and escape drug toxicity by regulating heat shock proteins (Hsps) expression and function. Hsp27 (HSPB1), a member of the small Hsp family, represents one of the key players of many signaling pathways contributing to tumorigenicity, treatment resistance, and apoptosis inhibition. Hsp27 is overexpressed in many types of cancer and its functions are regulated by post-translational modifications, such as phosphorylation. Protein phosphorylation is the most widespread signaling mechanism in eukaryotic cells, and it is involved in all fundamental cellular processes. Aberrant phosphorylation of Hsp27 has been associated with cancer but the molecular mechanisms by which it is implicated in cancer development and progression remain undefined. This mini-review focuses on the role of phosphorylation in Hsp27 functions in cancer cells and its potential usefulness as therapeutic target in cancer.
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