1. Foreword

   • Subhash C Lakhotia

   EditorialNotes 27 May 2007 Pages: 429 - 431

2. Key issues in achieving an integrative perspective on stress

   • Martin E Feder

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 433 - 440

3. Molecular chaperones: The modular evolution of cellular networks

   • Tamás Korcsmáros
   • István A Kovács
   • Péter Csermely

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 441 - 446

4. Studying stress responses in the post-genomic era: its ecological and evolutionary role

   • Jesper G Sørensen
   • Volker Loeschcke

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 447 - 456

5. Molecular mechanisms of canalization: Hsp90 and beyond

   • Neeraj Salathia
   • Christine Queitsch

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 457 - 463

6. Developmental plasticity and acclimation both contribute to adaptive responses to alternating seasons of plenty and of stress in Bicyclus butterflies

   • Paul M Brakefield
   • Jeroen Pijpe
   • Bas J Zwaan

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 465 - 475

7. The role of stress proteins in responses of a montane willow leaf beetle to environmental temperature variation

   • Elizabeth P Dahlhoff
   • Nathan E Rank

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 477 - 488

8. Molecular mechanisms underlying thermal adaptation of xeric animals

   • M B Evgen’ev
   • D G Garbuz
   • O G Zatsepina

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 489 - 499

9. Specific and unspecific responses of plants to cold and drought stress

   • Erwin H Beck
   • Sebastian Fettig
   • Tribikram Bhattarai

   OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 501 - 510

10. Protein stress and stress proteins: implications in aging and disease

    • C Sőti
    • Péter Csermely

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 511 - 515

11. Heat shock protein 90: The cancer chaperone

    • Len Neckers

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 517 - 530

12. Three-dimensional structure of heat shock protein 90 from Plasmodium falciparum: molecular modelling approach to rational drug design against malaria

    • Ranjit Kumar
    • Soundara Raghavan Pavithra
    • Utpal Tatu

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 531 - 536

13. Polyglutamine expansion in Drosophila: thermal stress and Hsp70 as selective agents

    • Brian R Bettencourt
    • Catherine C Hogan
    • Mario Nimali

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 537 - 547

14. Thermosensors in eubacteria: role and evolution

    • Wolfgang Schumann

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 549 - 557

15. The Kdp-ATPase system and its regulation

    • Anand Ballal
    • Bhakti Basu
    • Shree Kumar Apte

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 559 - 568

16. Basal transcription machinery: role in regulation of stress response in eukaryotes

    • Parag Sadhale
    • Jiyoti Verma
    • Aruna Naorem

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 569 - 578

17. Mechanisms of HSP72 release

    • Alexzander Asea

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 579 - 584

18. Heat shock transcription factors regulate heat induced cell death in a rat histiocytoma

    • Kolla V Prasad
    • Aftab Taiyab
    • Amere S Sreedhar

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 585 - 593

19. Heat shock genes — integrating cell survival and death

    • Richa Arya
    • Moushami Mallik
    • Subhash C Lakhotia

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 595 - 610

20. Complexity of rice Hsp100 gene family: lessons from rice genome sequence data

    • Gaurav Batra
    • Vineeta Singh Chauhan
    • Anil Grover

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 611 - 619

21. Functional validation of a novel isoform of Na⁺/H⁺ antiporter from Pennisetum glaucum for enhancing salinity tolerance in rice

    • Dheeraj Verma
    • Sneh L Singla-Pareek
    • S K Sopory

    OriginalPaper 27 May 2007 Pages: 621 - 628