Type: | Family | Name: | Co-chaperone Hsc20 |
Description: | This family describes the small subunit, Hsc20 (20K heat shock cognate protein) of a pair of proteins Hsc66-Hsc20, related to the DnaK-DnaJ heat shock proteins, which also serve as molecular chaperones. Hsc20, unlike DnaJ, appears not to have chaperone activity on its own, but to act solely as a regulatory subunit for Hsc66. The gene for Hsc20 in Escherichia coli, hscB, is not induced by heat shock. | Short Name: | HscB |