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1 October 2003 Tomato heat stress protein Hsp16.1-CIII represents a member of a new class of nucleocytoplasmic small heat stress proteins in plants
Masood Siddique, Markus Port, Joanna Tripp, Christian Weber, Dirk Zielinski, Raffaella Calligaris, Sibylle Winkelhaus, Klaus-Dieter Scharf
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Abstract

We describe a new class of plant small heat stress proteins (sHsps) with dominant nuclear localization (Hsp17-CIII). The corresponding proteins in tomato, Arabidopsis, and rice are encoded by unique genes containing a short intron in the β4-encoding region of the α-crystallin domain (ACD). The strong nuclear localization results from a cluster of basic amino acid residues in the loop between β5 and β6 of the ACD. Using yeast 2-hybrid tests, analyses of native complexes of the sHsps, and immunofluorescence data, we demonstrate that, in contrast to earlier observations (Kirschner et al 2000), proteins of the sHsp classes CI, CII, and CIII interact with each other, thereby influencing oligomerization state and intracellular localization.

Masood Siddique, Markus Port, Joanna Tripp, Christian Weber, Dirk Zielinski, Raffaella Calligaris, Sibylle Winkelhaus, and Klaus-Dieter Scharf "Tomato heat stress protein Hsp16.1-CIII represents a member of a new class of nucleocytoplasmic small heat stress proteins in plants," Cell Stress & Chaperones 8(4), 381-394, (1 October 2003). https://doi.org/10.1379/1466-1268(2003)008<0381:THSPHR>2.0.CO;2
Received: 14 May 2003; Accepted: 1 September 2003; Published: 1 October 2003
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