title: HSPIR: a manually annotated heat shock protein information resource.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  Heat shock protein information resource (HSPIR) is a concerted database of six major heat shock proteins (HSPs), namely, Hsp70, Hsp40, Hsp60, Hsp90, Hsp100 and small HSP. The HSPs are essential for the survival of all living organisms, as they protect the conformations of proteins on exposure to various stress conditions. They are a highly conserved group of proteins involved in diverse physiological functions, including de novo folding, disaggregation and protein trafficking. Moreover, their critical role in the control of disease progression made them a prime target of research. Presently, limited information is available on HSPs in reference to their identification and structural classification across genera. To that extent, HSPIR provides manually curated information on sequence, structure, classification, ontology, domain organization, localization and possible biological functions extracted from UniProt, GenBank, Protein Data Bank and the literature. The database offers interactive search with incorporated tools, which enhances the analysis. HSPIR is a reliable resource for researchers exploring structure, function and evolution of HSPs.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  http://pdslab.biochem.iisc.ernet.in/hspir/
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Ratheesh Kumar
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: R
authors.forename: Nagarajan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: N S
authors.forename: Arunraj
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: S P
authors.forename: Devanjan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sinha
authors.forename: Vinoth Babu
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Veedin Rajan
authors.forename: Vinoth Kumar
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Esthaki
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: D'Silva
mesh_terms: D018834:Chaperonin 60 / Q000737:chemistry; D030562:Databases, Protein; D050956:HSP40 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D018841:HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D050888:Heat-Shock Proteins, Small / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation / Q000379:methods*; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D018834:Chaperonin 60; D050956:HSP40 Heat-Shock Proteins; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D018841:HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D050888:Heat-Shock Proteins, Small