The Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Diseases and Their Therapeutic Potential: Environmental Stress and Microorganisms

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce this Special Issue of Microorganisms on "The role of Heat Shock Proteins in Diseases and Their Therapeutic Potential: Environmental stress and Microorganisms”. Microorganisms (ISSN: 2076-2607, IF 4.926) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal related to prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, viruses, as well as prions.

Heat shock proteins (HSPs), a family of highly conserved proteins that that bind and help fold nascent or denatured polypeptides, ubiquitously exist in organisms (from bacteria to mammals). HSPs, also known as stress proteins, can change in case of disease occurrence and in the presence of environmental stressors such as microorganisms. Recent reports indicated that microorganisms played important role in the mechanism of biological injury induced by environmental stress.

In this Special Issue, our aim is to provide an in-depth view of "The Role of Heat Shock Proteins in Diseases and Their Therapeutic Potential: Environmental Stress including Biological Stress and Abiotic Stress and Microorganisms”. We welcome high-quality original research and review articles focusing on (but not limited to) the following subtopics:

• Microorganisms
• Heat Shock Proteins
• Environmental stress
• Diseases  
• Therapy
• Molecular mechanism
• Environmental stress

Prof. Dr. Xiaohua Teng
Prof. Dr. You Tang
Guest Editors

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