Mycobacterial Small Heat Shock Proteins: Dissecting Their Roles in Pathogenesis and Development of Therapeutics.

Small heat shock proteins are a ubiquitous family of molecular chaperones. This class of proteins has a conserved α-crystallin domain. , the etiological agent that causes tuberculosis (TB), harbors two α-crystallin-related (Acr) small heat shock proteins, Acr1 (Hsp16.