ISOLATION, MOLECULAR CHARACTERISATION AND EXPRESSION LEVEL OF CYTOSOLIC HEAT-SHOCK PROTEIN 90 (HSP90) GENES OF CRYPTOCORYNE CILIATA, A HALOPHYTE PLANT

ZAIRUL FAZWAN ZAINORDIN, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, CHA THYE SAN, AZIZ AHMAD, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
2021 Journal of sustainability science and management  
As sessile organisms, plants need osmotic adjustment and intercellular molecule changes for survival. Heat-shock proteins (HSPs)/ chaperones have been identified as the molecules involved in homeostasis and plays a crucial role in protecting plants against stresses. The HSPsproteins re-establish protein conformation through the folding, assembly, translocation degradation, stabilization of membrane protein (Wang et al., 2004; Wei et al., 2020) . So far, more than twenty different family of
more » ... oteins that have chaperone activity have been discovered (Kosmaoglou et al., 2008) . Five major HSPs/chaperones families have been classified according to their molecular weight, which are the small HSP family (12-40 KDa), HSP60 family (60 KDa), HSP70 family (70 KDa), HSP90 family (90 KDa), and HSP100 family (100 KDa) (Wang et al., 2004) . HSP90 is one of the most abundant proteins expressed
doi:10.46754/jssm.2021.10.004 fatcat:4l2sv3vu2rdhpatqwgunqpmefu