“…The sHSPs participate in the proteome integrity by binding to the hydrophobic regions of misfolded and non-native proteins in stressful conditions. Besides their canonical function in proteostasis, sHSPs have been involved in an increasing number of cellular functions in stress and physiological conditions such as cellular differentiation and proliferation, translation, oxidative stress regulation, cytoskeleton stabilisation, apoptosis, and autophagy [ 1 , 3 , 19 , 33 , 39 , 59 , 86 ]. Interestingly, mutations in HSPB1 and αB-crystallin, two other members of the same sHSP family, have also been associated with inherited peripheral neuropathies [ 11 , 24 , 27 , 48 , 63 , 68 ], and distal myopathy, respectively [ 28 , 53 , 82 ].…”