Stress-Inducible Cellular Responses

I: Functions of stress proteins in unstressed cells.- Normal protein folding machinery.- Roles for hsp70 in protein translocation across membranes of organelles.- Protein folding and assembly in the endoplasmic reticulum.- Involvement of molecular chaperones in intracellular protein breakdown.- Molecular chaperoning of steroid hormone receptors.- Protein disulfide isomerase: A multifunctional protein of the endoplasmic reticulum.- II: Regulation of inducible stress responses.- Sensing stress and responding to stress.- The transcriptional regulation of heat shock genes: A plethora of heat shock factors and regulatory conditions.- Transcriptional regulation of stress-inducible genes in procaryotes.- The impact of oxidative stress on eukaryotic iron metabolism.- Heat-shock induced protein modifications and modulation of enzyme activities.- SOS response as an adaptive response to DNA damage in prokaryotes.- III: Cellular responses to specific stresses.- Transcriptional regulators of oxidative stress-inducible genes in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.- UV activation of mammalian stress proteins.- Signaling events controlling the molecular response to genotoxic stress.- Mammalian DNA repair responses and genomic instability.- Toxic metal-responsive gene transcription.- Tumor necrosis factor and lymphotoxin: Protection against oxidative stress through induction of MnSOD.- IV: Paradigms for complex stress responses.- Viral infection.- Infection, autoimmunity and autoimmune disease.- Stress proteins in inflammation.- Attenuated heat shock transcriptional response in aging: Molecular mechanism and implication in the biology of aging.- V: Applications of stress responses in toxicology and pharmacology.- Stress proteins as molecular biomarkers for environmental toxicology.- Thermotolerance and heat shock proteins: Possible involvement of Ku autoantigen in regulating HSP70 expression.- Heat shock proteins as immunological carriers and vaccines.- Regulation of thermotolerance and ischemic tolerance.- Future applications.- Outlook.