Recent Publications Small HSPs, molecular chaperone activity
Reviews Small HSPs, molecular evolution
Small HSPs, chloroplastic Thermotolerance
Small HSPs, cytosolic Small HSPs, and lipids
Small HSPs, endomembrane-localized Hsp70
Small HSPs, expression during seed development Hsp100

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New Publications 

McClellan, C.A., T.J. Turbeyville, E.M. K. Wijeratne, A. Kerschen, E. Vierling , C. Queitsch, L. Whitesell, A.A. Gunatilaka. A rhizosphere fungus enhances Arabidopsis thermotolerance through production of an Hsp90 inhibitor. Plant Physiol. (2007).

Kotak, S., E. Vierling , H. Bäumlein, P. von Koskull-Döring. A novel transcriptional cascade regulating heat stress proteins during seed development in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 19:182-195 (2007).

Kwon, Y., Kim, S-H., Jung, M-S., Kim, M-S., Oh, J-E., Ju, H-W., Kim, K-I., Vierling, E ., Lee, H., Hong, S-W. Arabidopsis hot2 encodes an endochitinase-like protein that is essential for tolerance to heat, salt and drought stresses. Plant J. 49:184-193 (2007).

Lee, U., I. Rioflorido, S-W. Hong, J. Larkindale, E. R.Waters, E.Vierling . The Arabidopsis ClpB/Hsp100 family of proteins: Chaperones for stress and chloroplast development. Plant Journal 49:115-127 (2007).


Reviews

Vierling, E. Mechanism of chaperone action of small heat shock proteins, in ed. W. Houry, Molecular Chaperones: Principles and Diseases (Henry Stewart Talks, London , 2007). Series info webpage: http://www.hstalks.com/molchap/index.htm

Kotak, S., J. Larkindale, U. Lee, P. von Koskull-Döring, E. Vierling , K-D. Scharf. Complexity of the heat stress response in plants. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol., 10:310-316 (2007).

Larkindale, J., Mishkind, M., E. Vierling . Plant responses to high temperature: In: Plant Abiotic Stress . Matthew A. Jenks and P.M. Hasegawa, eds. Blackwell Publishing. (2005).

van Montfort, R., C. Slingsby, E. Vierling . Structure and function of the small heat shock protein/a-crystallin family of molecular chaperones. In: Protein Folding in the Cell . Advances in Protein Chemistry Series. A. Horwich, ed. Academic Press. Vol 59:105-156 (2002).

Scharf, K-D., M. Siddique, E. Vierling . The expanding family of Arabidopsis thaliana small heat stress proteins (sHsps) and a new family of proteins containing a-crystallin domains (Acd proteins). Cell Stress & Chaperones 6:225-237 (2001).

Vierling, E. (1997). Plant HSP101/ClpB. In: Guidebook to molecular chaperones and Protein-Folding Catalysts. M.J. Gething, ed. Sambrook and Tooze Publications at Oxford University Press. pp.253-255 

Vierling, E. (1997). Chloroplast-localized Clp proteins. In: Guidebook to molecular chaperones and Protein-Folding Catalysts. M.J. Gething, ed. Sambrook and Tooze Publications at Oxford University Press. pp.255- 258. 

Gaestel, M., E. Vierling, Buchner, J. (1997). The small heat shock protein (sHSP) family - an overview. In: Guidebook to molecular chaperones and Protein-Folding Catalysts. M.J. Gething, ed. Sambrook and Tooze Publications at Oxford University Press. pp.269-272. 

Vierling, E., Lee, G.J. (1997). Plant small heat shock proteins (sHSPs). In: Guidebook to molecular chaperones and Protein-Folding Catalysts. M.J. Gething, ed. Sambrook and Tooze Publications at Oxford University Press. pp.277-280. 

E. Vierling. (1997). The small heat shock protein in plants are members of an ancient family of heat induced proteins. Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 19:539-547. 

Boston, R.S., P.V. Viitanen, E. Vierling. (1996). Molecular chaperones and protein folding in plants. In: Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in plants, W. Filipowicz and T. Hohn. Plant Mol. Biol., 32:191-222. 

Waters, E.R., Lee, G.J. and Vierling, E. (1996). Evolution, structure and function of the small heat shock proteins in plants. J. Exp. Bot. 47: 325-338. 

Vierling, E. (1991). The roles of heat shock proteins in plants. Annu. Rev. Plant Physiology Plant Mol. Biol. 42: 579-620. 
 

Small HSPs, chloroplastic
 

Waters, E., E. Vierling. (1999). Chloroplast small heat shock proteins: Evidence for atypical evolution of an organelle-localized protein. Proc. National Acad. Sciences. 96:14394-14399.

Harndahl,U., R.B. Hall, K.O. Osteryoung, E. Vierling, J. Bornman, C. Sundby. (1999). The chloroplast small heat shock protein undergoes oxidation-dependent conformational changes and may protect plants from oxidative stress. Cell Stress & Chaperones. 4:129-138.

Suzuki, T.C., D.C. Krawitz, E. Vierling. (1998). The chloroplast small heat shock protein oligomer is not phosphorylated and does not dissociate during heat stress in vivo. Plant Physiol. 116:1151-1161. 

Osteryoung, K.W. and Vierling, E. (1994). Dynamics of small heat shock protein distribution within the chloroplasts of higher plants. J. Biol. Chem. 269, 28676-28682. 

Chen, Q., K. Osteryoung and E. Vierling. (1994). A 21-kDa chloroplast heat shock protein assembles into high molecular weight complexes in vivo and in organelle. J. Biol. Chem. 269:13216-13223. 

Chen, Q. and Vierling, E. (1991). Analysis of conserved domains identifies a unique structural feature of a chloroplast heat shock protein. Mol. Gen. Genet. 226, 425-431. 
 

Small HSPs, cytosolic

Helm, K.W., Lee, G.J., and Vierling, E. (1997). Expression and Native Structure of Cytosolic Class II Small Heat Shock Proteins. Plant Physiol. 114(4): 1477-1485. 

Hernandez, L.D. and Vierling, E. (1993). Expression of low molecular weight heat-shock proteins under field conditions. Plant Physiol. 101: 1209-1216. 

DeRocher, A.E., Helm, K.W., Lauzon, L.M. and Vierling, E. (1991). Expression of a conserved family of cytoplasmic low molecular weight heat shock proteins during heat stress and recovery. Plant Physiol. 96,1038-1047. 
 

Small HSPs, endomembrane-localized 

Helm, K.W., P. Lafayette, R.T. Nagao, J.L. Key and E. Vierling. (1993). Localization of small HSPs to the higher plant endomembrane system. Mol. Cell. Biol. 13:238-247. 
 

Small HSPs, expression during seed development 

Wehmeyer, N., E. Vierling. The expression of sHsps in seeds responds to discrete developmental signals and suggests a general protective role in desiccation tolerance. Plant Physiol., 122: 189-198 (2000).

DeRocher, A.E. and E. Vierling. (1994). Developmental control of small heat shock protein expression during pea seed maturation. Plant J. 5:93-102. 

Wehmeyer, N., L.D. Hernandez, R.R. Finkelstein, E. Vierling. (1996). Synthesis of small heat shock proteins is part of the developmental program of late seed maturation. Plant Physiol. 112:747- 757. 
 

Small HSPs, molecular chaperone activity 

Basha, E., K.L. Friedrich, E. Vierling . The N-terminal arm of small heat shock proteins is important for both chaperone activity and substrate specificity. J. Biol. Chem. 281: 39943-39952 (2006).

Giese, K.C., E. Basha, B.Y. Catague, E. Vierling . Evidence for an essential function of the N-terminus of a small heat shock protein in vivo, independent of in vitro chaperone activity. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102: 18896-18901(2005).

Giese, K.C., E. Vierling . Mutants in a small heat shock proteins that affect the oligomeric state: analysis and allele specific suppression. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 32674 - 32683 (2004).

Basha, E., G.J. Lee, B. Demeler, E. Vierling . Chaperone activity of cytosolic small heat shock proteins in wheat. Eur. J. Biochem. 271:1-11 (2004).

Basha, E., G. J. Lee, L. A. Breci, A.C. Hausrath, N. R. Buan, K C. Giese, E. Vierling . The identity of proteins associated with a small heat shock protein during heat stress in vivo indicates these chaperones protect a wide range of cellular functions. J. Biol. Chem., 279: 7566-7575 (2004).

Friedrich, K. L., K. C. Giese, N. R. Buan, E. Vierling . Interactions between small heat shock protein subunits and substrate in small heat shock protein/substrate complexes. J. Biol. Chem. 279:1080-1089 (2004).

Mogk, A., E.Deuerling, S. Vorderwülbecke, E. Vierling , B. Bukau. Small heat shock proteins, ClpB and the DnaK system form a functional triade in reversing protein aggregation. Mol. Microbiol. 50:585-595. (2003).

Wintrode, P.L., K. L. Friedrich, E. Vierling , J. B. Smith, D. L. Smith. Solution structure and dynamics of a heat shock protein complex probed by hydrogen exchange/mass spectrometry. Biochemistry 42:10667-10673 (2003).

Mogk, A., C. Schlieker, K. L. Friedrich, H-J. Schönfeld, E. Vierling , B. Bukau. Refolding of substrates bound to small Hsps relies on a disaggregation reaction mediated most efficiently by ClpB/DnaK J. Biol. Chem. 278:31033-31042 (2003).

Giese, K.C., E. Vierling . Changes in oligomerization are essential for the chaperone activity of a small heat shock protein in vivo and in vitro. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 46310-46318 (2002)

Sobott, F., J.L.P. Benesch, E. Vierling , C.V. Robinson. Subunit exchange of multimeric protein complexes Real-time monitoring of subunit exchange between small heat shock proteins by using electrospray-mass spectrometry. J. Biol. Chem. 277: 38921-38929 (2002).

van Montfort, R., E. Basha, K.L. Friedrich, C. Slingsby, E. Vierling . Structure and assembly of a eukaryotic small heat shock protein. Nature Struct. Biol. 8:1025-1030 (2001).

Lee, G.J., E. Vierling. (2000). A small heat shock protein cooperates with heat shock protein 70 systems to reactivate a heat-denatured protein. Plant Physiology. 1:189-198.

Lee, G.J. and Vierling, E. (1998). Expression, Purification and Molecular Chaperone Activity of Plant Recombinant Small Heat Shock Proteins. In: Protein Folding:catalysts, accessory proteins, and chaperones. Eds. G. Lorimer and T.O. Baldwin. Methods in Enzymology. 29:350-365. 

Lee, G.J., A.M. Roseman, H.R. Saibil, E. Vierling. (1997). A small heat shock protein stably binds heat- denatured model substrates and can maintain a substrate in a folding competent state. EMBO J. 16:659-671. 

Lee, G.J. (1995). Assaying proteins for molecular chaperone activity. Methods Cell Biol. 50, 325-333. 

Lee, G.J., Pokala, N., and Vierling, E. (1995). Structure and in vitro molecular chaperone activity of cytosolic small heat shock proteins from pea. J. Biol. Chem. 270:10432-10438.


Small HSPs, molecular evolution 

Basha, E.M., E.R. Waters, E. Vierling. (1999). Triticum aestivum cDNAs homologous to nuclear-encoded mitochondrion-localized small heat shock proteins. Plant Science. 141:93-103. 

Waters, E.R, E. Vierling. (1999). The diversification of plant cytosolic small heat shock proteins preceded the divergence of mosses. Molecular Biol. & Evolution. 16:127-139. 

Thermotolerance 

Larkindale, J. J, D. Hall, M. R. Knight, E. Vierling . Heat stress phenotypes of Arabidopsis mutants implicate multiple signaling pathways in the acquisition of thermotolerance. Plant Physiol., 138:882-97 (2005).

Clerkx,E.J.M., M. E. El-Lithy, E. Vierling , G.J. Ruys, H.Blankestijn-DeVries, S.P.C. Groot, D. Vreugdenhil, M. Koornneef. Analysis of natural allelic variation of Arabidopsis seed quality traits between the accessions Landsberg erecta and Shakdara, using a new recombinant inbred line population. Plant Physiol. 135: 432-443 (2004).

Liu, Z., S-W. Hong, M. Escobar, E. Vierling , D. L. Mitchell, D. W. Mount, J. D. Hall. Arabidopsis UVH6, a homolog of human XPD and yeast RAD3 DNA repair genes, functions in DNA repair and is essential for plant growth. Plant Physiol. 132:757-767 (2003).

Hong, S-W., U. Lee, E. Vierling . Arabidopsis hot mutants define multiple functions required for acclimation to high temperature. Plant Physiol. 132:1405-1414 (2003).

Salvucci, M. E., K.O. Osteryoung, S.-J. Crafts-Brandner, E. Vierling . Exceptional sensitivity of rubisco sctivase to thermal denaturation in vitro and in vivo. Plant Physiol. 127:1053-1064 (2001).


Small HSPs, and lipids

Balogi,Z., Z. Török, G. Balogh, K. Jósvay, N. Shigapova, E. Vierling , L. Vígh, I Horváth. “Heat shock lipid” in cyanobacteria during heat/light-acclimation. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. Membrane Biochem. Biophys. 436:346-54 (2005).

Tsvetkova, N.M., I. Horváth, Z. Török, W.F. Wolkers,, Z. Balogi, N. Shigapova, L.M. Crowe, F. Tablin, E. Vierling , J.H. Crowe, L. Vigh. Small heat shock proteins regulate lipid polymorphism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 99:13504-13509 (2002).

Török, Z., P. Goloubinoff, I. Horváth, N.M. Tsvetkova, A. Glatz, G. Balogh, V. Varvasovszki, D.A.Los, E. Vierling , J.H. Crowe and L. Vígh. HSP17 is an amphitropic protein that stabilizes heat-stressed membranes and binds denatured proteins for subsequent chaperone-mediated refolding. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 98:3098-3103 (2001).

Hsp70 
Sung, D.Y., E.Vierling , C. Guy. Comprehensive Expression Profile Analysis of the Arabidopsis Hsp70 Gene Family. Plant Physiol. 126:789-800 (2001).

DeRocher, A., and Vierling, E. (1995). Cytoplasmic HSP70 homologues of pea: differential expression in vegetative and embryonic organs. Plant Mol. Biol. 27:441-456. 
 

Hsp100
Lee,U., C. Wie, M. Escobar, B. Williams, S.-W. Hong, E. Vierling . Genetic analysis reveals domain interactions of Arabidopsis Hsp100/ClpB and cooperation with the sHsp chaperone system. Plant Cell, 17:559-571 (2005).

Lum, R., J. M. Tkach, E. Vierling , and J. R. Glover. Evidence for an unfolding/threading mechanism for protein disaggregation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hsp104. J. Biol. Chem. 279: 29139 - 29146 (2004).

Hong, S-W., E.Vierling . Hsp101 is necessary for heat tolerance but dispensable for development and germination in the absence of stress. Plant Jour. 27:25-35 (2001).

Hong, S-H., E. Vierling. Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana defective in the acquisition of tolerance to high temperature stress. Proc. Natl. Acad. Science, 97: 4392-4397 ( 2000).

Queitsch,C., S-H. Hong, E. Vierling, S. Lindquist. Hsp101 plays a crucial role in thermotolerance in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 12: 479-492 (2000).

Schirmer, E.C., Lindquist, S., and Vierling, E. (1994). An Arabidopsis heat shock protein complements a thermotolerance defect in yeast. Plant Cell. 6:1899-1909.