Recent Publications

  1. Welsh MJ, W Wu, M Parvinen, and RR Gilmont. 1996. Variation in expression of hsp27 messenger RNA during the cycle of the seminiferous epithelium and co-localization of hsp27 and microfilaments in Sertoli cells of the rat. Biol. Reprod. 55: 141-151.
  2. Wu, W and MJ Welsh. 1996. Expression of the 25-kDa heat-shock protein (HSP27) correlates with resistance to the toxicity of cadmium chloride, mercuric chloride, cis- platinum(II)-diammine dichloride, or sodium arsenite in mouse embryonic stem cells transfected with sense or antisense HSP27 cDNA. Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 141: 330-339.
  3. Smoyer, WE, A Gupta, P Mundel, JD Ballew, and MJ Welsh. 1996. Altered expression of glomerular hsp27 in experimental nephrotic syndrome. J. Clin. Invest. 97: 2697-2704.
  4. Welsh, MJ and M Gaestel. 1998. Small heat shock protein family: function in health and disease. In: Stress of Life from Molecules to Man. (ed.: P. Csermely) Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 851, 1-19.
  5. Liu, C. and M.J. Welsh. 1999. Identification of a Site of Hsp27 Binding with Hsp27 and aB-Crystallin as Indicated by the Yeast Two-Hybrid System. 1999. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 255:256-261.
  6. Ibitayo, A.I., J. Stadick, S. Tuteja, O. Louis-Jacques, H. Yamada, G. Groblewski, M.J. Welsh and K.N. Bitar. 1999. Involvement of hsp27 in signal transduction and association with contractile proteins in smooth muscle cells. Am. J. Physiol. 277(2 Pt 1):G445-54.
  7. Schafer, C., P. Clapp, M.J. Welsh, R. Benndorf and J.A. Williams. 1999. Hsp27 expression and phosphorylation regulates cholecystokinin-induced changes in the actin cytoskeleton in CHO-CCK-A cells. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Cell Physiol. 46): C1032-C1043
  8. Smoyer, W.E., R.F. Ransom, R.C. Harris, M.J. Welsh, G. Lutsch and R. Benndorf. 2000. Ischemic acute renal failure induces differential expression of small heat shock proteins. J. Am. Soc. Nephrol. 11: 211-221.
  9. Liu, C., R.R. Gilmont, R. Benndorf and M.J. Welsh. 2000. Identification and characterization of a novel protein from Sertoli cells, PASS1, that associates with mammalian small stress protein hsp27. J. Biol. Chem.275: 18724-18731.
  10. Benndorf, R, X Sun, RR Gilmont, KJ Biederman, MP Malloy, CW Goodmurphy, H Cheng, PC Andrews and MJ Welsh.  2001.  Hsp22, a new member of the small heat shock protein superfamily, interacts with mimic of phosphorylated hsp27 (3Dhsp27).  J. Biol. Chem. 276:26753-26761.
  11.  Jia, Y, RF Ransom, M. Shibanuma, C. Liu, MJ Welsh and WE Smoyer.  2001.  Identification and characterization of Hic-5/ARA55 as an hsp27-binding protein.  J. Biol. Chem. 276:39911-39918.

Last updated May, 2002.