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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2016

Extracellular HSPs: The Complicated Roles of Extracellular HSPs in Immunity.

Stuart K Calderwood, Jianlin Gong, Ayesha Murshid

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers.

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114citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

114 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  5. Live and heat-treatediScience · 2026
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  8. Diabetes, Protein Misfolding, and Heat Stress: Molecular Insights and Translational Perspectives.TH open : companion journal to thrombosis and haemostasis · 2026
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  9. Recent insights into HSP70: proteostasis and beyond.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2026
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  12. An atlas of ferroptosis-induced secretomes.Cell death and differentiation · 2025
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  19. Polymorphisms ofReumatologia · 2025
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  20. Dual roles ofFrontiers in immunology · 2025
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54 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Stuart K CalderwoodDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA , USA.
Jianlin GongDepartment of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center , Boston, MA , USA.
Ayesha MurshidDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA , USA.

Funding

TRANSMEMBRANE SIGNAL MODULATION BY HYPERTHERMIAR01CA047407 · NCI · DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE · PI CALDERWOOD, STUART KEITH · 1988 to 2014
$4.3M
Extracellular Hsp70 and hyperthermia in tumor therapyR01CA119045 · NCI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI CALDERWOOD, STUART KEITH · 2007 to 2016
$3.1M
Gene Repression by HSF1 during hyperthermia and stressesR01CA094397 · NCI · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · PI CALDERWOOD, STUART KEITH · 2002 to 2006
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA047407NCI NIH HHS R01 CA094397NCI NIH HHS R01 CA119045
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular heat-shock proteins (HSPs) interact with the immune system in a very complex manner. Many such HSPs exert powerful effects on the immune response, playing both stimulatory and regulatory roles. However, the influence of the HSPs on immunity appears to be positive or negative in nature - rarely neutral. Thus, the HSPs can act as dominant antigens and can comprise key components of antitumor vaccines. They can also function as powerful immunoregulatory agents and, as such, are employed to treat inflammatory diseases or to extend the lifespan of tissue transplants. Small modifications in the cellular milieu have been shown to flip the allegiances of HSPs from immunoregulatory agents toward a potent inflammatory alignment. These mutable properties of HSPs may be related to the ability of these proteins to interact with multiple receptors often with mutually confounding properties in immune cells. Therefore, understanding the complex immune properties of HSPs may help us to harness their potential in treatment of a range of conditions.

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heatimmunityimmunosuppressionproteinreceptorsscavengershocksurface

Identifiers

PMID27199984
PMCPMC4842758

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