Editor
Matthias Gaestel

2006

More than 40 years after Ferruccio Ritossas’s discovery of heat shock-induced formation of puffs in the polytene chromosomes of Drosophila, many different families of heat shock proteins and molecular chaperones have emerged and have been continuously studied in structure and function until today. As a result, it has now become clear that molecular chaperones are involved in a wide variety of essential processes in living cells.