Hsp90 ( heat shock protein 90 ) is a chaperone protein that assists other proteins to fold properly, stabilizes proteins against heat stress , and aids in protein degradation . It also stabilizes a number of proteins required for tumor growth, which is why Hsp90 inhibitors are investigated as anti-cancer drugs.
104-410: Heat shock proteins , as a class, are among the most highly expressed cellular proteins across all species. As their name implies, heat shock proteins protect cells when stressed by elevated temperatures. They account for 1–2% of total protein in unstressed cells. However, when cells are heated, the fraction of heat shock proteins increases to 4–6% of cellular proteins. Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90)
208-580: A body plan from a common ancestor, and that taxa were branches of a single tree of life . The word homology, coined in about 1656, is derived from the Greek ὁμόλογος homologos from ὁμός homos 'same' and λόγος logos 'relation'. Similar biological structures or sequences in different taxa are homologous if they are derived from a common ancestor . Homology thus implies divergent evolution . For example, many insects (such as dragonflies ) possess two pairs of flying wings . In beetles ,
312-404: A common ancestor after having been subjected to adaptive modifications for different purposes as the result of natural selection . The term was first applied to biology in a non-evolutionary context by the anatomist Richard Owen in 1843. Homology was later explained by Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution in 1859, but had been observed before this from Aristotle's biology onwards, and it
416-494: A phylogenetic tree based on Hsp90 sequences, it was found that plants and animals are more closely related to each other than to fungi. Similar to the Hsp90 protein, the gene for Hsp70 protein also underwent duplication at a very early stage in the formation of eukaryotic cells and the homologs in the cytosol and endoplasmic reticulum resulted from this gene duplication event. These gene duplication events are important in terms of
520-429: A cell's own repair system, called the "cellular stress response" or the "heat-shock response". Recently, there are several studies that suggest a correlation between HSPs and dual frequency ultrasound as demonstrated by the use of LDM-MED machine. Heat shock proteins appear to be more susceptible to self-degradation than other proteins due to slow proteolytic action on themselves. Heat shock proteins appear to serve
624-506: A constant supply of functional Hsp90 is needed to maintain the tertiary structure of the proteasome. Finally experiments done with heat sensitive Hsp90 mutants and the 26S proteasome suggest that Hsp90 is responsible for most, if not all, of the ATPase activity of the proteasome. The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is the most thoroughly studied example of a steroid receptor whose function is crucially dependent on interactions with Hsp90. In
728-470: A gene in an organism is duplicated, the two copies are paralogous. They can shape the structure of whole genomes and thus explain genome evolution to a large extent. Examples include the Homeobox ( Hox ) genes in animals. These genes not only underwent gene duplications within chromosomes but also whole genome duplications . As a result, Hox genes in most vertebrates are spread across multiple chromosomes:
832-439: A general protective chaperone. However Hsp90 is somewhat more selective than other chaperones. Eukaryotic proteins that are no longer needed or are misfolded or otherwise damaged are usually marked for destruction by the polyubiquitation pathway. These ubiquitinated proteins are recognized and degraded by the 26S proteasome . Hence the 26S proteasome is an integral part of the cell's mechanism to degrade proteins. Furthermore,
936-423: A lot on context of tissue whether HSPs will stimulate the immune system or suppress immunity. They can promote Th17 , Th1 , Th2 or Treg responses depending on antigen-presenting cells . As a result, the clinical use of heat-shock proteins is both in cancer treatment (boosting an immune response) and treatment of autoimmune diseases (suppress of immunity). Alpha crystallin ( α4- crystallin ) or hspb4
1040-431: A major immunogenic epitope of HSP90 followed by EP1 (1-12) and EP8 (488-498). Knowledge of binding epitopes on the autoantigen is necessary to understand the subsequent pathologic events. Predicted 3D structures of these peptides demonstrated that they exist in the loop conformation, which is the most mobile part of the protein. Also, analysis of the sequences of HSP90 beta across several species reveals that EP6 peptide forms
1144-646: A mechanism involving RNA thermometers such as the FourU thermometer , ROSE element and the Hsp90 cis-regulatory element . Petersen and Mitchell found that in D. melanogaster a mild heat shock pretreatment which induces heat shock gene expression (and greatly enhances survival after a subsequent higher temperature heat shock) primarily affects translation of messenger RNA rather than transcription of RNA . Heat shock proteins are also synthesized in D. melanogaster during recovery from prolonged exposure to cold in
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#17327838933891248-476: A nthracene), a mutagen . Moreover, HSF1 inhibition by a potent RNA aptamer attenuates mitogenic (MAPK) signaling and induces cancer cell apoptosis . Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a immune-disease characterized by the presence of hyperglycemia . Typically these symptoms are brought about by insulin deficiency . However, there have been many recent articles alluding to a correlation between hsp70, in some cases hsp60, and DM. Another recent article discovered
1352-465: A number of important roles, which include assisting folding , intracellular transport, maintenance, and degradation of proteins as well as facilitating cell signaling. Hsp90 is known to associate with the non-native structures of many proteins, which has led to the proposal that Hsp90 is involved in protein folding in general. Furthermore, Hsp90 has been shown to suppress the aggregation of a wide range of "client" or "substrate" proteins and hence acts as
1456-476: A part of a well-conserved motif. A polyclonal antibody generated to the immunodominant epitope- EP6 confirms similar biochemical and cellular immunoreactivity as seen with the patients' sera with anti-HSP90 autoantibodies. The study might generate new tools for the detection of disease-inducing epitopes and a possible therapeutic intervention. Sequence alignments of Hsp90 have shown the protein to have about 40% sequence identity across all homologs, indicating that it
1560-480: A pattern of gene expression in the growing zones ( meristems ) is described by the ABC model of flower development . Each of the four types of flower parts is serially repeated in concentric whorls, controlled by a small number of genes acting in various combinations. Thus, A genes working alone result in sepal formation; A and B together produce petals; B and C together create stamens; C alone produces carpels. When none of
1664-415: A permanent stress. When HSPs from a tumour are isolated, the peptide repertoire bound by HSPs is somewhat a fingerprint of these particular tumour cells. Application of such HSPs back into patient then stimulate immune system (promotes efficient antigen presentation and act as DAMP) specifically against the tumor and leads to tumor regression. This immunisation is not functional against a different tumour. It
1768-502: A pivotal role in managing oxidative stress and other physiological factors. Krief et al. referred hspb7 (cvHSP - cardiovascular Heat shock protein) as cardiac heat shock protein. Gata4 is an essential gene responsible for cardiac morphogenesis. It also regulates the gene expression of hspb7 and hspb12. Gata4 depletion can result in reduced transcript levels of hspb7 and hspb12 and this could result in cardiac myopathies in zebrafish embryos as observed by Gabriel et al. hspb7 also acts in
1872-417: A significant cardiovascular role. Hsp90, hsp84 , hsp70, hsp27 , hsp20 , and alpha B crystallin all have been reported as having roles in the cardiovasculature. Hsp90 binds both endothelial nitric oxide synthase and soluble guanylate cyclase , which in turn are involved in vascular relaxation. The subset of hsp70, extracellular hsp70 (ehsp70) and intracellular hsp70 (ihsp70), has been shown to have
1976-456: A variety of different organisms from bacteria to mammals – including the prokaryotic analogue HtpG (high-temperature protein G) with 40% sequence identity and 55% similarity to the human protein. Yeast Hsp90 is 60% identical to human Hsp90α. In mammalian cells, there are two or more genes encoding cytosolic Hsp90 homologues, with the human Hsp90α showing 85% sequence identity to Hsp90β. The α- and
2080-495: A “pincer-type” conformational change in the protein binding site. Hsp90, while in the open conformation, leaves some hydrophobic residues exposed, to which unfolded and misfolded proteins that have unusual hydrophobic regions exposed are recruited with high affinity. When a bound substrate is in place, the energy-releasing ATP hydrolysis by the ATPase function near the N-terminal domain forces conformational changes that clamp
2184-487: Is a highly conserved protein. There are two homologs, found in the cytosol and endoplasmic reticulum respectively. The presence of these two homologs was likely caused by a gene duplication event very early in the evolution of eukaryotes that may have accompanied the evolution of the endoplasmic reticulum or the nucleus . This inference is supported by the fact that the duplication is found in Giardia lamblia , one of
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#17327838933892288-487: Is a synapomorphy for fleas. Patterns such as these lead many cladists to consider the concept of homology and the concept of synapomorphy to be equivalent. Some cladists follow the pre-cladistic definition of homology of Haas and Simpson, and view both synapomorphies and symplesiomorphies as homologous character states. Homologies provide the fundamental basis for all biological classification, although some may be highly counter-intuitive. For example, deep homologies like
2392-560: Is based on their ability to bind not only whole proteins, but also peptides. The affinity and specificity of this interaction is typically low. It was shown, that at least some of the HSPs possess this ability, mainly hsp70 , hsp90 , gp96 and calreticulin , and their peptide-binding sites were identified. In the case of gp96 it is not clear whether it can bind peptides in vivo , although its peptide-binding site has been found. But gp96 immune function could be peptide-independent, because it
2496-549: Is defined in terms of shared ancestry. Two segments of DNA can have shared ancestry because of either a speciation event ( orthologs ) or a duplication event ( paralogs ). Homology among proteins or DNA is typically inferred from their sequence similarity. Significant similarity is strong evidence that two sequences are related by divergent evolution of a common ancestor. Alignments of multiple sequences are used to indicate which regions of each sequence are homologous. Homologous sequences are orthologous if they are descended from
2600-447: Is expressed during stress and during the development of embryo, somites, mid-hindbrain, heart and lens in zebrafish. Expression of the hspb4 gene, which codes for alpha crystallin , increases considerably in the lens in response to heat shock. Production of high levels of heat shock proteins can also be triggered by exposure to different kinds of environmental stress conditions, such as infection , inflammation , exercise, exposure of
2704-898: Is involved in proper folding of many immune receptors, like TLR or integrins . Apart from that, HSPs can stimulate immune receptors and are important in proper folding of proteins involved in pro-inflammatory signaling pathways. HSPs are indispensable components of antigen presentation pathways - the classical ones and also cross-presentation and autophagy . In the simplified view of this pathway HSPs are usually not mentioned: antigenic peptides are generated in proteasome , transported into ER through protein transporter TAP and loaded onto MHCI , which then goes through secretory pathway on plasma membrane. But HSPs play an important part in transfer of unfolded proteins to proteasome and generated peptides to MHCI . Hsp90 can associate with proteasome and take over generated peptides. Afterwards, it can associate with hsp70 , which can take
2808-586: Is involved in the development of lens in Zebrafish as it is expressed in response to heat shock in the Zebrafish embryo in its developmental stages. Heat shock factor 1 (HSF 1) is a transcription factor that is involved in the general maintenance and upregulation of Hsp70 protein expression. Recently it was discovered that HSF1 is a powerful multifaceted modifier of carcinogenesis . HSF1 knockout mice show significantly decreased incidence of skin tumor after topical application of DMBA (7,12- d i m ethyl b enz
2912-490: Is more efficient than internalisation of soluble antigens. Tumor cells usually express only a few neo-antigens, which can be targeted by immune system and also not all tumor cells express them. Because of that the amount of tumor antigens is restricted and high efficiency of cross-presentation is necessary for mounting strong immune response. Hsp70 and hsp90 are also involved intracellulary in cytosolic pathway of cross-presentation where they help antigens to get from endosome into
3016-601: Is necessary for proper folding of many pro-inflammatory proteins (components of PI3K , MAPK and NF- kB cascades). Researchers are also investigating the role of HSPs in conferring stress tolerance to hybridized plants, hoping to address drought and poor soil conditions for farming. Homology (biology) In biology , homology is similarity in anatomical structures or genes between organisms of different taxa due to shared ancestry , regardless of current functional differences. Evolutionary biology explains homologous structures as retained heredity from
3120-672: Is not known how they are distinguished from the cross-presented ones (see below). HSPs are involved in classical macroautophagy, when protein aggregates are enclosed by double membrane and degraded afterwards. They are also involved in a special type of autophagy called chaperone-mediated autophagy , when they enable cytosolic proteins to get into lysosomes. When HSPs are extracellular, they can bind to specific receptors on dendritic cells (DC) and promote cross-presentation of their carried peptides. The most important receptors in this case are scavenger receptors , mainly SRECI and LOX-1 . CD91 scavenger receptor has been previously proposed as
3224-487: Is now considered to by the common heat-shock protein receptor because it binds hsp60 , hsp70 , hsp90 , hsp110, gp96 and GRP170 . The relevance for this type of cross-presentation is high especially in tumour-immunosurveillance . Thanks to the HSP, the bound peptide is protected against degradation in dendritic cell compartments and the efficiency of cross-presentation is higher. Also internalisation of HSP-peptide complex
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3328-404: Is one of the most common of the heat-related proteins. The "90" comes from the fact that it has a mass of roughly 90 kilodaltons . A 90 kDa protein is considered fairly large for a non-fibrous protein. Hsp90 is found in bacteria and all branches of eukarya , but it is apparently absent in archaea . Whereas cytoplasmic Hsp90 is essential for viability under all conditions in eukaryotes ,
3432-457: Is release of HSPs during cell necrosis , or secretion of HSPs in exosomes . During special types of apoptotic cell death (for example induced by some chemotherapeutics ), HSPs can also appear on the extracellular side of plasma membrane. There is a debate about how long can HSP keep its peptide in extracellular space, at least for hsp70 the complex with peptide is quite stable. The role of extracellular HSPs can be miscellaneous. It depends
3536-617: Is required for ATP hydrolysis . The middle domain is divided into three regions: The MD is also involved in client protein binding. For example, proteins known to interact this the Hsp90 MD include PKB/ Akt1 , eNOS , Aha1 , Hch1 . Furthermore, substrate binding (e.g., by Aha1 and Hch1) to the MD is also known to increase the ATPase activity of Hsp90. The C-terminal domain possesses an alternative ATP-binding site, which becomes accessible when
3640-443: Is shared due to common ancestry. Primary homology may be conceptually broken down further: we may consider all of the states of the same character as "homologous" parts of a single, unspecified, transformation series. This has been referred to as topographical correspondence. For example, in an aligned DNA sequence matrix, all of the A, G, C, T or implied gaps at a given nucleotide site are homologous in this way. Character state identity
3744-534: Is similar to that of other proteins in that it contains all of the common secondary structural elements (i.e., alpha helixes , beta pleated sheets , and random coils). Being a cytoplasmic protein requires that the protein be globular in structure, that is largely non-polar on the inside and polar on the outside, so as to be solubilized by water. Hsp90 contains nine helices and eight anti-parallel beta pleated sheets, which combine to form several alpha/beta sandwiches. The 3 10 helices make up approximately 11% of
3848-404: Is strong evidence that two sequences are related by divergent evolution from a common ancestor. Alignments of multiple sequences are used to discover the homologous regions. Homology remains controversial in animal behaviour , but there is suggestive evidence that, for example, dominance hierarchies are homologous across the primates . Homology was noticed by Aristotle (c. 350 BC), and
3952-450: Is taken to be homologous. As implied in this definition, many cladists consider secondary homology to be synonymous with synapomorphy , a shared derived character or trait state that distinguishes a clade from other organisms. Shared ancestral character states, symplesiomorphies, represent either synapomorphies of a more inclusive group, or complementary states (often absences) that unite no natural group of organisms. For example,
4056-404: Is the hypothesis that the particular condition in two or more taxa is "the same" as far as our character coding scheme is concerned. Thus, two Adenines at the same aligned nucleotide site are hypothesized to be homologous unless that hypothesis is subsequently contradicted by other evidence. Secondary homology is implied by parsimony analysis , where a character state that arises only once on a tree
4160-594: The pax6 genes that control the development of the eyes of vertebrates and arthropods were unexpected, as the organs are anatomically dissimilar and appeared to have evolved entirely independently. The embryonic body segments ( somites ) of different arthropod taxa have diverged from a simple body plan with many similar appendages which are serially homologous, into a variety of body plans with fewer segments equipped with specialised appendages. The homologies between these have been discovered by comparing genes in evolutionary developmental biology . Among insects,
4264-528: The ATP -binding, protein-binding, and dimerizing domain, each of which playing a crucial role in the function of the protein. The region of the protein near the N-terminus has a high-affinity ATP-binding site. The ATP binds to a sizable cleft in the side of protein, which is 15 Å (1.5 nanometres) deep. This cleft has a high affinity for ATP, and when given a suitable protein substrate, Hsp90 cleaves
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4368-556: The PI3K/AKT pathway leading to downregulation of the anti- apoptotic protein Bcl-w resulting in apoptosis of cancerous and senescent cells. Interestingly, the disruption of HSP90 with nano-therapeutics has been implicated in targeting drug-induced resistance and relieves the suppression of Natural Killer (NK) immune cells in breast cancer. Another important role of Hsp90 in cancer is the stabilization of mutant proteins such as v-Src ,
4472-412: The embryo in the same manner and from similar origins, such as from matching primordia in successive segments of the same animal, are serially homologous . Examples include the legs of a centipede , the maxillary and labial palps of an insect , and the spinous processes of successive vertebrae in a vertebrate's backbone . Male and female reproductive organs are homologous if they develop from
4576-471: The stinger of the female honey bee is a modified ovipositor , homologous with ovipositors in other insects such as the Orthoptera , Hemiptera , and those Hymenoptera without stingers. The three small bones in the middle ear of mammals including humans, the malleus , incus , and stapes , are today used to transmit sound from the eardrum to the inner ear . The malleus and incus develop in
4680-423: The "same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function", and contrasting it with the matching term "analogy" which he used to describe different structures with the same function. Owen codified 3 main criteria for determining if features were homologous: position, development, and composition. In 1859, Charles Darwin explained homologous structures as meaning that the organisms concerned shared
4784-701: The ATP into ADP and P i . Direct inhibitors of ATP binding or allosteric inhibitors of either ATP binding or ATPase activity can block Hsp90 function. Another interesting feature of the ATP-binding region of Hsp90 is that it has a “lid” that is open during the ADP-bound state and closed in the ATP-bound state. In the open conformation, the lid has no intraprotein interaction, and when closed comes into contact with several residues. The contribution of this lid to
4888-557: The ATPase/kinase GHKL ( G yrase , H sp90, Histidine K inase , Mut L ) superfamily. A common binding pocket for ATP and the inhibitor geldanamycin is situated in the N-terminal domain. Amino acids that are directly involved in the interaction with ATP are Leu34, Asn37, Asp79, Asn92, Lys98, Gly121, and Phe124. In addition, Mg and several water molecules form bridging electrostatic and hydrogen bonding interactions, respectively, between Hsp90 and ATP. In addition, Glu33
4992-496: The HoxA–D clusters are the best studied. Some sequences are homologous, but they have diverged so much that their sequence similarity is not sufficient to establish homology. However, many proteins have retained very similar structures, and structural alignment can be used to demonstrate their homology. It has been suggested that some behaviours might be homologous, based either on sharing across related taxa or on common origins of
5096-614: The Hsp90 down onto the substrate. In a reaction similar to that of other molecular clamp proteins like GyrB and MutL , this site drives virtually all of the protein folding functions that Hsp90 plays a role in. In contrast, MutL and GyrB function as topoisomerases and use a charge clamp with a high amount of positively charged sidechains that is electrostatically attracted to the negative backbone of DNA. The ability of Hsp90 to clamp onto proteins allows it to perform several functions including assisting folding, preventing aggregation, and facilitating transport. In unstressed cells, Hsp90 plays
5200-515: The N-terminal Bergerat pocket is occupied. At the very C-terminal end of the protein is the tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) motif recognition site, the conserved MEEVD pentapeptide, that is responsible for the interaction with co-factors such as the immunophilins FKBP51 and FKBP52 , the stress induced phosphoprotein 1 (Sti1/Hop), cyclophilin-40 , PP5 , Tom70 , and many more. The Hsp90 protein contains three functional domains,
5304-576: The absence of heat shock. A mild heat shock pretreatment of the same kind that protects against death from subsequent heat shock also prevents death from exposure to cold. Several heat shock proteins function as intra-cellular chaperones for other proteins. They play an important role in protein–protein interactions such as folding and assisting in the establishment of proper protein conformation (shape) and prevention of unwanted protein aggregation. By helping to stabilize partially unfolded proteins, HSPs aid in transporting proteins across membranes within
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#17327838933895408-469: The absence of the steroid hormone cortisol , GR resides in the cytosol complexed with several chaperone proteins including Hsp90 (see figure to the right). These chaperones maintain the GR in a state capable of binding hormone. A second role of Hsp90 is to bind immunophilins (e.g., FKBP52 ) that attach the GR complex to the dynein protein trafficking pathway, which translocates the activated receptor from
5512-543: The activity of Hsp90 has been probed with site-directed mutagenesis . The Ala107Asp mutant stabilizing the closed conformation of the protein through the formation of additional hydrogen bonds substantially increases ATPase activity while leaving the AMP+PnP conformation unchanged. The ATPase -binding region of Hsp90 is currently under intense study, because it is the principal binding site of drugs targeting this protein. Antitumor drugs targeting this section of Hsp90 include
5616-471: The antibiotics geldanamycin , herbimycin , radicicol , deguelin , derrubone , macbecin , and beta-lactams. The protein-binding region of Hsp90 is located toward the C-terminus of the amino sequence. The Hsp90 protein can adopt two major conformational states. The first is an open ATP-bound state and the second is a closed ADP-bound state. Thus, ATP hydrolysis drives what is commonly referred to as
5720-402: The bacterial homologue HtpG is dispensable under non-heat stress conditions. This protein was first isolated by extracting proteins from cells stressed by heating, dehydrating or by other means, all of which caused the cell's proteins to begin to denature . However it was later discovered that Hsp90 also has essential functions in unstressed cells. Hsp90 is highly conserved and expressed in
5824-538: The behaviour in an individual's development; however, the notion of homologous behavior remains controversial, largely because behavior is more prone to multiple realizability than other biological traits. For example, D. W. Rajecki and Randall C. Flanery, using data on humans and on nonhuman primates , argue that patterns of behaviour in dominance hierarchies are homologous across the primates. As with morphological features or DNA, shared similarity in behavior provides evidence for common ancestry. The hypothesis that
5928-498: The cell stress. This increase in expression is transcriptionally regulated. The dramatic upregulation of the heat shock proteins is a key part of the heat shock response and is induced primarily by heat shock factor (HSF). HSPs are found in virtually all living organisms, from bacteria to humans . Heat shock proteins are named according to their molecular weight. For example, Hsp60 , Hsp70 and Hsp90 (the most widely studied HSPs) refer to families of heat shock proteins on
6032-479: The cell to harmful materials ( ethanol , arsenic , and trace metals , among many others), ultraviolet light, starvation , hypoxia ( oxygen deprivation), nitrogen deficiency (in plants) or water deprivation. As a consequence, the heat shock proteins are also referred to as stress proteins and their upregulation is sometimes described more generally as part of the stress response . The mechanism by which heat-shock (or other environmental stressors) activates
6136-411: The cell, as it is essential for both the creation and the maintenance as well as the destruction of proteins. Its normal function is critical to maintaining the health of cells, whereas its dysregulation may contribute to carcinogenesis . The ability of this chaperone to both stabilize the 26S proteasome (which enables the cell to degrade unwanted and/or harmful proteins) and to stabilize kinases against
6240-472: The cell. Some members of the HSP family are expressed at low to moderate levels in all organisms because of their essential role in protein maintenance. Heat-shock proteins also occur under non-stressful conditions, simply "monitoring" the cell's proteins. Some examples of their role as "monitors" are that they carry old proteins to the cell's "recycling bin" ( proteasome ) and they help newly synthesised proteins fold properly. These activities are part of
6344-451: The common HSP receptor. But now its relevance is controversial because the majority of DC types does not express CD91 in relevant amounts and the binding capacity for many HSPs has not been proved. Stimulation of some scavenger receptors can even result in immunosuppression, this is the case for SRA. LOX-1 and SRECI when stimulated guide HSPs with their associated peptides into cross-presentation. LOX-1 binds mainly hsp60 and hsp70 . SRECI
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#17327838933896448-731: The cytoplasm into the nucleus. Once in the nucleus, the GR dimerizes and binds to specific sequences of DNA and thereby upregulates the expression of GR responsive genes. Hsp90 is also required for the proper functioning of several other steroid receptors, including those responsible for the binding of aldosterone , androgen , estrogen , and progesterone . Cancerous cells overexpress a number of proteins, including growth factor receptors, such as EGFR, or signal transduction proteins such as PI3K and AKT (Inhibition of these proteins may trigger apoptosis ). Hsp90 stabilizes various growth factor receptors and some signaling molecules including PI3K and AKT proteins. Hence inhibition of Hsp90 downregulates
6552-720: The cytosol. Extracellular heat-shock proteins can be sensed by the immunity as damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). They are able to interact with pattern recognition receptors like TLR2 or TLR4 and activate antigen presenting cells by upregulation of co-stimulation molecules (CD80, CD86, CD40), MHC molecules and pro-inflammatory and Th1 cytokines. HSP70 was shown to react to DAMP release, causing an influx of HSP70-positive T-EVs (tumor cells) that initiate anti-tumor immune signaling cascades. Heat-shock proteins can signal also through scavenger receptors , which can either associate with TLRs, or activate pro-inflammatory intracellular pathways like MAPK or NF- kB . With
6656-460: The dog endoplasmic reticulum ( 2O1U , 2O1V ) were elucidated. Hsp90 forms homodimers where the contact sites are localized within the C-terminus in the open conformation of the dimer. The N-termini also come in contact in the closed conformation of the dimer. The N-terminal domain shows homology not only among members of the Hsp90 chaperone family but also to members of
6760-438: The downregulation of Kupffer vesicles which is responsible for regulation of left-right asymmetry of heart in zebrafish. Along with hspb7, hspb12 is involved in cardiac laterality determination. A kinase of the nitric oxide cell signalling pathway, protein kinase G , phosphorylates a small heat shock protein, hsp20. Hsp20 phosphorylation correlates well with smooth muscle relaxation and is one significant phosphoprotein involved in
6864-491: The earliest branching eukaryotic species. At least 2 other subsequent gene duplications occurred, which explains the different forms of Hsp90 found in fungi and vertebrates . One divergence produced cognate and heat-induced forms of Hsp90 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae , while the second gene duplication event in the cytosolic branch produced the alpha and beta subfamilies of sequences that are found in all vertebrates. In
6968-482: The embryo from structures that form jaw bones (the quadrate and the articular) in lizards, and in fossils of lizard-like ancestors of mammals. Both lines of evidence show that these bones are homologous, sharing a common ancestor. Among the many homologies in mammal reproductive systems , ovaries and testicles are homologous. Rudimentary organs such as the human tailbone , now much reduced from their functional state, are readily understood as signs of evolution ,
7072-516: The embryos develop. The implication that the ancestors of snakes had hind legs is confirmed by fossil evidence: the Cretaceous snake Pachyrhachis problematicus had hind legs complete with hip bones ( ilium , pubis , ischium ), thigh bone ( femur ), leg bones ( tibia , fibula ) and foot bones ( calcaneum , astragalus ) as in tetrapods with legs today. As with anatomical structures, sequence homology between protein or DNA sequences
7176-435: The exception of SRA, which down-regulates immune response. Heat-shock proteins can be secreted from immune cells or tumour cells by non-canonical secretion pathway, or leaderless pathway, because they do not have the leader peptide, which navigate proteins into endoplasmic reticulum. The non-canonical secretion can be similar to the one, which occurs for IL1 b , and it is induced by stress conditions. Another possibility
7280-472: The explanation being that they were cut down by natural selection from functioning organs when their functions were no longer needed, but make no sense at all if species are considered to be fixed. The tailbone is homologous to the tails of other primates. In many plants, defensive or storage structures are made by modifications of the development of primary leaves , stems , and roots . Leaves are variously modified from photosynthetic structures to form
7384-460: The first pair of wings has evolved into a pair of hard wing covers , while in Dipteran flies the second pair of wings has evolved into small halteres used for balance. Similarly, the forelimbs of ancestral vertebrates have evolved into the front flippers of whales , the wings of birds , the running forelegs of dogs , deer , and horses , the short forelegs of frogs and lizards , and
7488-407: The fusion oncogene Bcr/Abl , and mutant forms of p53 that appear during cell transformation. It appears that Hsp90 can act as a "protector" of less stable proteins produced by DNA mutations. Hsp90 is also required for induction of vascular endothelial growth factor ( VEGF ) and nitric oxide synthase (NOS). Both are important for de novo angiogenesis that is required for tumour growth beyond
7592-445: The genes are active, leaves are formed. Two more groups of genes, D to form ovules and E for the floral whorls, complete the model. The genes are evidently ancient, as old as the flowering plants themselves. Developmental biology can identify homologous structures that arose from the same tissue in embryogenesis . For example, adult snakes have no legs, but their early embryos have limb-buds for hind legs, which are soon lost as
7696-561: The grasping hands of primates including humans. The same major forearm bones ( humerus , radius , and ulna ) are found in fossils of lobe-finned fish such as Eusthenopteron . The opposite of homologous organs are analogous organs which do similar jobs in two taxa that were not present in their most recent common ancestor but rather evolved separately . For example, the wings of insects and birds evolved independently in widely separated groups , and converged functionally to support powered flight , so they are analogous. Similarly,
7800-523: The heat shock factor has been determined in bacteria. During heat stress, outer membrane proteins (OMPs) do not fold and cannot insert correctly into the outer membrane. They accumulate in the periplasmic space . These OMPs are detected by DegS, an inner membrane protease , that passes the signal through the membrane to the sigmaE transcription factor. However, some studies suggest that an increase in damaged or abnormal proteins brings HSPs into action. Some bacterial heat shock proteins are upregulated via
7904-601: The insect-trapping pitchers of pitcher plants , the insect-trapping jaws of the Venus flytrap , and the spines of cactuses , all homologous. Certain compound leaves of flowering plants are partially homologous both to leaves and shoots, because their development has evolved from a genetic mosaic of leaf and shoot development. The four types of flower parts, namely carpels , stamens , petals , and sepals , are homologous with and derived from leaves, as Goethe correctly noted in 1790. The development of these parts through
8008-562: The limit of diffusion distance of oxygen in tissues. It also promotes the invasion step of metastasis by assisting the matrix metalloproteinase MMP2. Together with its co-chaperones, Hsp90 modulates tumour cell apoptosis "mediated through effects on AKT , tumor necrosis factor receptors (TNFR) and nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) function.". Also, Hsp90 participates in many key processes in oncogenesis such as self-sufficiency in growth signals, stabilization of mutant proteins, angiogenesis, and metastasis. Hsp90 plays apparently conflicting roles in
8112-541: The metabolic uncoupler 2,4-dinitrophenol induced a characteristic pattern of " puffing " in the chromosomes of Drosophila . This discovery eventually led to the identification of the heat-shock proteins (HSP) or stress proteins whose expression this puffing represented. Increased synthesis of selected proteins in Drosophila cells following stresses such as heat shock was first reported in 1974. In 1974, Tissieres, Mitchell and Tracy discovered that heat-shock induces
8216-589: The order of 60, 70 and 90 kilodaltons in size, respectively. The small 8-kilodalton protein ubiquitin , which marks proteins for degradation, also has features of a heat shock protein. A conserved protein binding domain of approximately 80 amino-acid alpha crystallins are known as small heat shock proteins (sHSP). It is known that rapid heat hardening can be elicited by a brief exposure of cells to sub-lethal high temperature, which in turn provides protection from subsequent and more severe temperature. In 1962, Italian geneticist Ferruccio Ritossa reported that heat and
8320-644: The origin of the eukaryotic cell and of the endoplasmic reticulum. Heat shock protein Heat shock proteins ( HSPs ) are a family of proteins produced by cells in response to exposure to stressful conditions. They were first described in relation to heat shock , but are now known to also be expressed during other stresses including exposure to cold, UV light and during wound healing or tissue remodeling. Many members of this group perform chaperone functions by stabilizing new proteins to ensure correct folding or by helping to refold proteins that were damaged by
8424-650: The peptide further to the TAP . After passing through TAP, ER chaperons are getting important - calreticulin binds peptides and together with gp96 form peptide loading complex for MHCI. This handing over with peptides is important, because HSPs can shield hydrophobic residues in peptides which would be otherwise problematic in aquatic cytosol. Also simple diffusion of peptides would be too ineffective. In MHCII presentation, HSPs are involved in clathrin-dependent endocytosis . Also when HSPs are extracellular, they can guide their associated peptides into MHCII pathway, although it
8528-400: The presence of wings is a synapomorphy for pterygote insects, but a symplesiomorphy for holometabolous insects. Absence of wings in non-pterygote insects and other organisms is a complementary symplesiomorphy that unites no group (for example, absence of wings provides no evidence of common ancestry of silverfish, spiders and annelid worms). On the other hand, absence (or secondary loss) of wings
8632-435: The principle of connections, namely that what is important is the relative position of different structures and their connections to each other. Embryologist Karl Ernst von Baer stated what are now called von Baer's laws in 1828, noting that related animals begin their development as similar embryos and then diverge: thus, animals in the same family are more closely related and diverge later than animals which are only in
8736-505: The process. Hsp20 appears significant in development of the smooth muscle phenotype during development. Hsp20 also serves a significant role in preventing platelet aggregation, cardiac myocyte function and prevention of apoptosis after ischemic injury, and skeletal muscle function and muscle insulin response. Hsp27 is a major phosphoprotein during women's contractions. Hsp27 functions in small muscle migrations and appears to serve an integral role. Function of heat-shock proteins in immunity
8840-709: The production of a small number of proteins and inhibits the production of most others. This initial biochemical finding gave rise to a large number of studies on the induction of heat shock and its biological role. Heat shock proteins often function as chaperones in the refolding of proteins damaged by heat stress. Heat shock proteins have been found in all species examined, from bacteria to humans, suggesting that they evolved very early and have an important function. According to Marvin et al. sHSPs independently express not only in heat shock response but also have developmental roles in embryonic or juvenile stages of mammals, teleost fish and some lower vertebral genomes. hspb1 (HSP27)
8944-540: The protein's amino acid residues, which is much higher than the average 4% in other proteins. Hsp90 consists of four structural domains : Crystal structures are available for the N-terminal domain of yeast and human Hsp90, for complexes of the N-terminus with inhibitors and nucleotides , and for the middle domain of yeast Hsp90. Recently structures for full length Hsp90 from E. coli ( 2IOP , 2IOQ ), yeast ( 2CG9 , 2CGE ), and
9048-776: The ratio of ehsp70 and ihsp70 could have an effect on DM, leading to a sufficient biomarker . Serum levels of hsp70 have also been shown to increase over time in patients with diabetes. HSP expression plays a pivotal role in cancer identification. Recent discoveries have shown that high concentrations of eHSP can indicate the presence of contentious tumors. Additionally, HSPs have been shown to benefit oncologist in oral cancer diagnosis. Using techniques such as dot immunoassay and ELISA test researchers have been able to determine that HSP-specific phage antibodies could be beneficial in-vitro cancer diagnosis markers. HSPs have also been shown to interact with cancer adaptations such as drug resistance, tumor cell production and lifespan, and
9152-414: The same order and have fewer homologies. Von Baer's theory recognises that each taxon (such as a family) has distinctive shared features, and that embryonic development parallels the taxonomic hierarchy: not the same as recapitulation theory . The term "homology" was first used in biology by the anatomist Richard Owen in 1843 when studying the similarities of vertebrate fins and limbs, defining it as
9256-423: The same ancestral sequence separated by a speciation event: when a species diverges into two separate species, the copies of a single gene in the two resulting species are said to be orthologous . The term "ortholog" was coined in 1970 by the molecular evolutionist Walter Fitch . Homologous sequences are paralogous if they were created by a duplication event within the genome. For gene duplication events, if
9360-444: The same embryonic tissue, as do the ovaries and testicles of mammals , including humans . Sequence homology between protein or DNA sequences is similarly defined in terms of shared ancestry. Two segments of DNA can have shared ancestry because of either a speciation event ( orthologs ) or a duplication event ( paralogs ). Homology among proteins or DNA is inferred from their sequence similarity. Significant similarity
9464-399: The same proteasome demonstrates its functional diversity. The uses of Hsp90 inhibitors in cancer treatment highlight Hsp90's importance as a therapeutic target. Targeting Hsp90 with drugs has shown promising effects in clinical trials. For example, the Hsp90 inhibitor geldanamycin has been used as an anti-tumor agent. The drug was originally thought to function as a kinase inhibitor but
9568-432: The three groups. Thus, in the pterosaurs, the "wing" involves both the forelimb and the hindlimb. Analogy is called homoplasy in cladistics , and convergent or parallel evolution in evolutionary biology. Specialised terms are used in taxonomic research. Primary homology is a researcher's initial hypothesis based on similar structure or anatomical connections, suggesting that a character state in two or more taxa share
9672-402: The up-regulation and down-regulation of oncomirs . Given their role in presentation , HSPs are useful as immunologic adjuvants (DAMPS) in boosting the response to a vaccine . Furthermore, some researchers speculate that HSPs may be involved in binding protein fragments from dead malignant cells and presenting them to the immune system. In a recent study published by Sedlacek et al., HSP
9776-436: The wings of a sycamore maple seed and the wings of a bird are analogous but not homologous, as they develop from quite different structures. A structure can be homologous at one level, but only analogous at another. Pterosaur , bird and bat wings are analogous as wings, but homologous as forelimbs because the organ served as a forearm (not a wing) in the last common ancestor of tetrapods , and evolved in different ways in
9880-439: The β-forms are thought to be the result of a gene duplication event that occurred millions of years ago. The five functional human genes encoding Hsp90 protein isoforms are listed below: There are 12 human pseudogenes (non-functional genes) that encode additional Hsp90 isoforms that are not expressed as proteins. A membrane-associated variant of cytosolic Hsp90, lacking an ATP-binding site, has recently been identified and
9984-438: Was described late in the 18th century. The French zoologist Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire showed in 1818 in his theorie d'analogue ("theory of homologues") that structures were shared between fishes, reptiles, birds, and mammals. When Geoffroy went further and sought homologies between Georges Cuvier 's embranchements , such as vertebrates and molluscs, his claims triggered the 1830 Cuvier-Geoffroy debate . Geoffroy stated
10088-426: Was explicitly analysed by Pierre Belon in 1555. A common example of homologous structures is the forelimbs of vertebrates , where the wings of bats and birds , the arms of primates , the front flippers of whales , and the forelegs of four-legged vertebrates like horses and crocodilians are all derived from the same ancestral tetrapod structure. In developmental biology , organs that developed in
10192-690: Was explicitly analysed by Pierre Belon in his 1555 Book of Birds , where he systematically compared the skeletons of birds and humans. The pattern of similarity was interpreted as part of the static great chain of being through the mediaeval and early modern periods: it was not then seen as implying evolutionary change. In the German Naturphilosophie tradition, homology was of special interest as demonstrating unity in nature. In 1790, Goethe stated his foliar theory in his essay "Metamorphosis of Plants", showing that flower parts are derived from leaves. The serial homology of limbs
10296-520: Was found, that application of some HSPs into patients is able to induce immune tolerance and treat autoimmune diseases. The underlying mechanism is not known. HSPs (especially hsp60 and hsp70) are used in clinical studies to treat rheumatoid arthritis and type I. diabetes . Current therapeutic research areas in the treatment for DM include: long-term physical exercise, hot tub therapy (HTT), and alfalfa-derived HSP70 (aHSP70). Hsp90 inhibitors are another possible treatment for autoimmunity, because hsp90
10400-448: Was in clinical trials for the treatment of several types of cancer, but for various reasons unrelated to efficacy did not go on to Phase 3. HSPgp96 also shows promise as an anticancer treatment and is currently in clinical trials against non-small cell lung cancer. Acting as DAMPs , HSPs can extracellularly promote autoimmune reactions leading to diseases as rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erythematosus . Nevertheless, it
10504-492: Was named Hsp90N . This HSP90α-Δ-N transcript is a chimera, with the first 105 bp of the coding sequence derived from the CD47 gene on chromosome 3q13.2, and the remaining coding sequence derived from HSP90AA1 . However, gene-encoding Hsp90N was later proven to be non-existent in human genome. It is possibly a cloning artifact or a product of chromosomal rearrangement occurring in a single cell line. The overall structure of Hsp90
10608-494: Was shown to effect different signaling pathways involved in carcinogenesis responses such as STAT1 activation, gp96-activated macrophages, and activation of NK cells . Therefore, HSPs may be useful for increasing the effectiveness of cancer vaccines. Also isolated HSPs from tumor cells are able to act as a specific anti-tumor vaccine by themselves. Tumour cells express a lot of HSPs because they need to chaperone mutated and over-expressed oncogenes , tumour cells are also in
10712-511: Was subsequently shown to be an Hsp90 inhibitor where it uses a compact conformation to insert itself into the ATP binding site. HSP90 beta has been identified as one of the autoantigenic biomarkers and targets involved in human ovarian autoimmune disease leading to ovarian failure and thereby infertility. Prediction and validation of the immunodominant epitope/s of HSP90 beta protein has been demonstrated using sera from infertile women having anti-HSP90 autoantibodies. The decapeptide EP6 (380-389)is
10816-592: Was used in autologous manner in clinical studies for gp96 and hsp70, but in vitro this works for all immune-relevant HSPs. Intracellular heat shock proteins are highly expressed in cancerous cells and are essential to the survival of these cell types due to presence of mutated and over-expressed oncogenes. Many HSPs can also promote invasiveness and metastasis formation in tumours, block apoptosis, or promote resistance to anti-cancer drugs. Hence small molecule inhibitors of HSPs , especially Hsp90 show promise as anticancer agents. The potent Hsp90 inhibitor 17-AAG
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