The Multifunctional Protein BAG3

The B-cell lymphoma 2–associated anthanogene (BAG3) protein is expressed most prominently in the heart, the skeletal muscle, and in many forms of cancer. In the heart, it serves as a co-chaperone with heat shock proteins in facilitating autophagy; binds to B-cell lymphoma 2, resulting in inhibition...

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Main Authors: Valerie D. Myers, MS, Joseph M. McClung, PhD, JuFang Wang, MD, Farzaneh G. Tahrir, PhD, Manish K. Gupta, PhD, Jennifer Gordon, PhD, Christopher H. Kontos, MD, Kamel Khalili, PhD, Joseph Y. Cheung, MD, PhD, Arthur M. Feldman, MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-02-01
Series:JACC: Basic to Translational Science
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452302X17302607