Journal
CELL STRESS & CHAPERONES
Volume 15, Issue 2, Pages 123-141Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12192-009-0137-6
Keywords
Heat shock proteins; Endotoxin; Innate immunity; Adaptive immunity; Inflammation; Immunoregulation
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- Medical Research Council
- Wellcome Trust
- British Heart Foundation
- Arthritis Research Campaign
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In recent years, it has been hypothesised that a new signalling system may exist in vertebrates in which secreted molecular chaperones form a dynamic continuum between the cellular stress response and corresponding homeostatic physiological mechanisms. This hypothesis seems to be supported by the finding that many molecular chaperones are released from cells and act as extracellular signals for a range of cells. However, this nascent field of biological research seems to suffer from an excessive criticism that the biological activities of molecular chaperones are due to undefined components of the microbial expression hosts used to generate recombinant versions of these proteins. In this article, a number of the proponents of the cell signalling actions of molecular chaperones take this criticism head-on. They show that sufficient evidence exists to support fully the hypothesis that molecular chaperones have cell-cell signalling actions that are likely to be part of the homeostatic mechanism of the vertebrate.
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