A widespread family of heat-resistant obscure (Hero) proteins protect against protein instability and aggregation

• Kotaro Tsuboyama ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tsuboyama-tky@umin.ac.jp (KT); tomari@iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp (YT)

  Affiliations Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Laboratory of RNA Function, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9034-8179

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• Tatsuya Osaki,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Biomolecular and Cellular Engineering laboratory, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7174-0629

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• Eriko Matsuura-Suzuki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Laboratory of RNA Function, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, RNA Systems Biochemistry Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan

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• Hiroko Kozuka-Hata,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Medical Proteomics Laboratory, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuki Okada,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Pathology and Development, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1159-7271

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• Masaaki Oyama,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Medical Proteomics Laboratory, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yoshiho Ikeuchi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Biomolecular and Cellular Engineering laboratory, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2829-3840

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• Shintaro Iwasaki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, RNA Systems Biochemistry Laboratory, RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7724-3754

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• Yukihide Tomari

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tsuboyama-tky@umin.ac.jp (KT); tomari@iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp (YT)

  Affiliations Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Laboratory of RNA Function, Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8442-0851

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