Asheat shockproteins (Hsps) are involved inprotecting cells and also in the pathophysiology of diseases such as inflam-mation, cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, modula-tors ofHsp expression inmammalian cells would seemto be useful for the treatment of various diseases. In this study, we isolated mammalian cell lines for screening of Hsp modu-lators; mouse C3H10T1/2 cells stably transfected with a plasmid containing the mouse Hsp105 or human Hsp70B promoter upstream of a luciferase or b-galactosidase reporter gene, respectively
