Small heat shock protein (sHSP) with chaperone activity; forms barrel-shaped oligomers that suppress unfolded protein aggregation; involved in cytoskeleton reorganization after heat shock; protein abundance increases and forms cytoplasmic foci in response to DNA replication stress [Source:SGD;Acc:S000002578]
Chromosome IV: 806,621-807,748 forward strand.
R64-1-1:BK006938.2
This gene has 1 transcript (splice variant) and 22 orthologues.