Hspb6 cDNA ORF clone, Rattus norvegicus(Norway rat)

Small Heat Shock Protein ?B-Crystallin Controls Shape and Adhesion of Glioma and Myoblast Cells in the Absence of Stress.
Shimizu M, Tanaka M, Atomi Y
PloS one11(12)e0168136(2016)

Heat shock protein 20 (HSP20) is a novel substrate for protein kinase D1 (PKD1).
Sin YY, Baillie GS
Cell biochemistry and function33(7)421-6(2015 Oct)

Small heat shock protein 20 (Hsp20) facilitates nuclear import of protein kinase D 1 (PKD1) during cardiac hypertrophy.
Sin YY, Martin TP, Wills L, Currie S, Baillie GS
Cell communication and signaling : CCS1316(2015 Mar)

Structure and properties of G84R and L99M mutants of human small heat shock protein HspB1 correlating with motor neuropathy.
Nefedova VV, Sudnitsyna MV, Strelkov SV, Gusev NB
Archives of biochemistry and biophysics538(1)16-24(2013 Oct)

we show for the first time that alphaB-crystallin, a molecular chaperon for tubulin/microtubules, is involved in cell shape determination. knockdown of this molecule caused myoblasts and glioma cells to lose their ability for adhesion as they tended to behave like migratory cells. knockdown in both C6 glial cells and L6 myoblast permitted cells to migrate more rapidly than dermal fibroblasts.
Title: Small Heat Shock Protein ?B-Crystallin Controls Shape and Adhesion of Glioma and Myoblast Cells in the Absence of Stress.

Study delineates the protein kinase D1 binding sites on HSP20 and shows that HSP20 is a substrate for protein kinase D1.
Title: Heat shock protein 20 (HSP20) is a novel substrate for protein kinase D1 (PKD1).

formation of the Hsp20-PKD1 complex is essential for PKD1 nuclear translocation, signaling mechanisms leading to hypertrophy
Title: Small heat shock protein 20 (Hsp20) facilitates nuclear import of protein kinase D 1 (PKD1) during cardiac hypertrophy.

Hsp20-mesenchymal stem cells enhanced cardiac repair. The mechanisms contributing to the beneficial effects of Hsp20 were associated with enhanced Akt activation and increased secretion of growth factors (VEGF, FGF-2, and IGF-1).
Title: Hsp20-engineered mesenchymal stem cells are resistant to oxidative stress via enhanced activation of Akt and increased secretion of growth factors.

Here, crystal structures of excised alpha-crystallin domain from rat Hsp20 and that from human alphaB-crystallin show that they form homodimers with a shared groove at the interface by extending a beta sheet.
Title: Crystal structures of alpha-crystallin domain dimers of alphaB-crystallin and Hsp20.