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NATURE REVIEWS IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 185-194Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nri749
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Heat-shock proteins (HSPs) are the most abundant and ubiquitous soluble intracellular proteins. In single-cell organisms, invertebrates and vertebrates, they perform a multitude of housekeeping functions that are essential for cellular survival. In higher vertebrates, their ability to interact with a wide range of proteins and peptides - a property that is shared by major histocompatibility complex molecules - has made the HSPs uniquely suited to an important role in organismal survival by their participation in innate and adaptive immune responses. The immunological properties of HSPs enable them to be used in new immunotherapies of cancers and infections.
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