Regulation of heat shock transcription factors and their roles in physiology and disease

R Gomez-Pastor, ET Burchfiel, DJ Thiele - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
The heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) were discovered over 30 years ago as direct
transcriptional activators of genes regulated by thermal stress, encoding heat shock …

Clinical significance of FBXW7 loss of function in human cancers

J Fan, M Bellon, M Ju, L Zhao, M Wei, L Fu, C Nicot - Molecular cancer, 2022 - Springer
Abstract FBXW7 (F-Box and WD Repeat Domain Containing 7)(also referred to as FBW7 or
hCDC4) is a component of the Skp1-Cdc53/Cullin-F-box-protein complex (SCF/β-TrCP). As …

Reversible phase separation of HSF1 is required for an acute transcriptional response during heat shock

H Zhang, S Shao, Y Zeng, X Wang, Y Qin, Q Ren… - Nature cell …, 2022 - nature.com
Heat-shock transcription factor 1 (HSF1) orchestrates the fast and vast cellular response to
heat shock through increased expression of heat-shock proteins. However, how HSF1 …

Rethinking HSF1 in stress, development, and organismal health

J Li, J Labbadia, RI Morimoto - Trends in cell biology, 2017 - cell.com
The heat shock response (HSR) was originally discovered as a transcriptional response to
elevated temperature shock and led to the identification of heat shock proteins and heat …

Heat shock proteins and HSF1 in cancer

AM Cyran, A Zhitkovich - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Fitness of cells is dependent on protein homeostasis which is maintained by cooperative
activities of protein chaperones and proteolytic machinery. Upon encountering protein …

FBXW7 in cancer: what has been unraveled thus far?

BL Sailo, K Banik, S Girisa, D Bordoloi, L Fan… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
The FBXW7 (F-box with 7 tandem WD40) protein encoded by the gene FBXW7 is one of the
crucial components of ubiquitin ligase called Skp1-Cullin1-F-box (SCF) complex that aids in …

Regulation of the mammalian heat shock factor 1

S Dayalan Naidu, AT Dinkova‐Kostova - The FEBS journal, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Living organisms are endowed with the capability to tackle various forms of cellular stress
due to the presence of molecular chaperone machinery complexes that are ubiquitous …

Recent insight into the role of FBXW7 as a tumor suppressor

K Yumimoto, KI Nakayama - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
FBXW7 (also known as Fbw7, Sel10, hCDC4, or hAgo) is a tumor suppressor and the most
frequently mutated member of the F-box protein family in human cancers. FBXW7 functions …

The heat shock response and small molecule regulators

MK Kurop, CM Huyen, JH Kelly, BSJ Blagg - European journal of medicinal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The heat shock response (HSR) is a highly conserved cellular pathway that is responsible
for stress relief and the refolding of denatured proteins [1]. When a host cell is exposed to …

FBW7 mediates senescence and pulmonary fibrosis through telomere uncapping

L Wang, R Chen, G Li, Z Wang, J Liu, Y Liang, JP Liu - Cell Metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Tissue stem cells undergo premature senescence under stress, promoting age-related
diseases; however, the associated mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we report that in …