Cancer Science & Therapy

Chaperones and Glioma Immunotherapy

Abstract

Indranil Paul and Mrinal Kanti Ghosh

Molecular chaperones, also known as heat-shock proteins or HSPs, are a functionally conserved class of proteins whose primary function is to keep cellular proteins in their native conformation, under both physiological and stress conditions. In most cases these chaperones do not participate in the final mature structures that their ‘clients’ form. Apart from folding, chaperones play vital roles in cellular localization, transport, secretion and assembly of proteins in multiprotein complexes