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ReviewJournal of molecular biology2024

The Heat Shock Response as a Condensate Cascade.

Annisa Dea, David Pincus

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Review in Journal of molecular biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Annisa DeaDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
David PincusDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States; Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States; Center for Physics of Evolving Systems, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States. Electronic address: pincus@uchicago.edu.

Funding

Regulatory Dynamics of the Proteostasis NetworkR01GM138689 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI PINCUS, DAVID · 2021 to 2024
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM138689
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The heat shock response (HSR) is a gene regulatory program controlling expression of molecular chaperones implicated in aging, cancer, and neurodegenerative disease. Long presumed to be activated by toxic protein aggregates, recent work suggests a new functional paradigm for the HSR in yeast. Rather than toxic aggregates, adaptive biomolecular condensates comprised of orphan ribosomal proteins (oRP) and stress granule components have been shown to be physiological chaperone clients. By titrating away the chaperones Sis1 and Hsp70 from the transcription factor Hsf1, these condensates activate the HSR. Upon release from Hsp70, Hsf1 forms spatially distinct transcriptional condensates that drive high expression of HSR genes. In this manner, the negative feedback loop controlling HSR activity - in which Hsf1 induces Hsp70 expression and Hsp70 represses Hsf1 activity - is embedded in the biophysics of the system. By analogy to phosphorylation cascades that transmit information via the dynamic activity of kinases, we propose that the HSR is organized as a condensate cascade that transmits information via the localized activity of molecular chaperones.

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Heat-Shock ResponseBiomolecular CondensatesDNA-Binding ProteinsHeat-Shock ProteinsHeat Shock Transcription FactorsHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesPhosphorylationRibosomal ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTranscription FactorsDNA-Binding ProteinsHeat-Shock ProteinsHeat Shock Transcription FactorsHSF1 protein, S cerevisiaeHSP70 Heat-Shock ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesRibosomal ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsTranscription FactorsCondensateHeat shockHsf1Hsp70Signaling cascade

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PMID38848866
PMCPMC11214683

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