| Type: | Family | Name: | Small heat shock protein HSP20 |
| Description: | Prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms respond to heat shock or other environmental stress by inducing the synthesis of proteins collectively knownas heat-shock proteins (hsp) []. Amongst them is a family of proteins with an average molecular weight of 20 Kd, known as the hsp20 proteins [, , ]. These seem to act as chaperones that can protect other proteins against heat-induced denaturation and aggregation. Hsp20 proteins seem to form large heterooligomeric aggregates.Structurally, this family is characterised by the presence of a conserved C- terminal domain of about 100 residues. | Short Name: | HSP20 |
