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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2025

Capturing the Conformational Heterogeneity of HSPB1 Chaperone Oligomers at Atomic Resolution.

Raymond F Berkeley, Alexander P Plonski, Tien M Phan, Kristof Grohe, Lukas Becker, Sebastian Wegner, Mark A Herzik, Jeetain Mittal, Galia T Debelouchina

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Small heat shock proteins and biomolecular condensates.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Raymond F BerkeleyDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Alexander P PlonskiDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Tien M PhanArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8608-7359
Kristof GroheBruker BioSpin GmbH & Co. KG, Ettlingen 76275, Germany.
Lukas BeckerBruker BioSpin GmbH & Co. KG, Ettlingen 76275, Germany.
Sebastian WegnerBruker BioSpin GmbH & Co. KG, Ettlingen 76275, Germany.
Mark A HerzikDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.
Jeetain MittalArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9725-6402
Galia T DebelouchinaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6775-9415

Funding

Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer ImmunologyP30CA030199 · NCI · SANFORD BURNHAM PREBYS MEDICAL DISCOVERY INSTITUTE · PI ELENA B PASQUALE · 1985 to 2026
$107.2M
U of Calif, San Diego Neuroscience Microscopy ImagingP30NS047101 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI GLEESON, JOSEPH G, ZHENG, BINHAI · 2003 to 2022
$9.0M
Molecular Biophysics Training Grant at UC San DiegoT32GM139795 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Galia Debelouchina, ELIZABETH A. KOMIVES · 2021 to 2026
$3.0M
Structural biology of chromatin in vitro and in cellsR35GM138382 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Galia Debelouchina · 2020 to 2026
$2.8M
Towards an Atomistic Understanding of Mitochondrial Protein Biogenesis (Equipment Supplement)R35GM138206 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HERZIK, MARK ANTHONY · 2020 to 2024
$2.1M
Multiscale Computational Models to Investigate the Role of Phase Separation in BiologyR35GM153388 · NIGMS · TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION · PI Jeetain Mittal · 2024 to 2026
$1.3M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA030199NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM138206NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM138382NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM153388NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM139795NINDS NIH HHS P30 NS047101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs), including HSPB1, are essential regulators of cellular proteostasis that interact with unfolded and partially folded proteins to prevent aberrant misfolding and aggregation. These proteins fulfill a similar role in biological condensates, where they interact with intrinsically disordered proteins to modulate their liquid-liquid and liquid-to-solid phase transitions. Characterizing the sHSP structure, dynamics, and client interactions is challenging due to their partially disordered nature, their tendency to form polydisperse oligomers, and their diverse range of clients. In this work, we leverage various biophysical methods, including fast

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Heat-Shock ProteinsMolecular ChaperonesHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationNuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularProtein ConformationProtein MultimerizationHeat-Shock ProteinsHSPB1 protein, humanMolecular Chaperones

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PMID40146081
PMCPMC12063158

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