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Heat Shock Proteins in Fish Health Management

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Biotechnological Tools in Fisheries and Aquatic Health Management

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All types of cells, including those of bacteria and mammals, include a group of highly conserved proteins called heat shock proteins. They play a significant role in protein maturation, re-folding, degradation and maintaining homeostasis and good health in fish species. In the presence of varied internal and external environmental challenges, some Hsps are constitutively expressed in specific locations, whereas others are quickly increased as a basis for self-defence and stress response for organisms. There are reports which suggest that in vivo production of Hsps, in response to both abiotic-like hyperthermia and hypoxia and biotic stressors such as microbial infections, leads to efficiently increase protein stability and enhance host immunity and resistance to microbial infection. Therefore, developing an alternative agent or strategy to enhance Hsps levels inside animals resulted in enhanced immunity and disease resistance in the host.

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Kumar, V., Roy, S., Banerjee, T., Behera, B.K., Das, B.K. (2023). Heat Shock Proteins in Fish Health Management. In: Behera, B.K. (eds) Biotechnological Tools in Fisheries and Aquatic Health Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2981-8_5

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