“…S100 proteins have received increasing attention due to their close association with several human diseases including cardiomyopathy (Most et al, 2001(Most et al, , 2003Du et al, 2002), neurodegenerative disorders (Heizmann, 1999;Hoyaux et al, 2000), neuroprotection (Ahlemeyer et al, 2000;Pedersen et al, 2004), and cancer (Lee et al, 2004;Lin et al, 2004). These proteins have also been shown to be valuable markers in the diagnosis and management of these diseases and are considered to have a potential as drug targets to improve therapies (Kiewitz et al, 2000;Diederichs et al, 2004;Harpio and Einarsson, 2004;Rehman et al, 2004).…”