Casano Caterina, Gianguzza Fabrizio, Roccheri Maria C, Di Giorgi Rossana, Maenza Luigia, Ragusa Maria A
Dipartimento di Biologia Cellulare e dello Sviluppo Alberto Monroy, Palermo, Italy.
J Histochem Cytochem. 2003 Dec;51(12):1581-7. doi: 10.1177/002215540305101202.
In a previous paper we demonstrated that, in Paracentrotus lividus embryos, deciliation represents a specific kind of stress that induces an increase in the levels of an acidic protein of about 40 kD (p40). Here we report that deciliation also induces an increase in Hsp40 chaperone levels and enhancement of its ectodermal localization. We suggest that Hsp40 might play a chaperoning role in cilia regeneration.