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Stress Proteins: Induction and Function

By Richard I. Morimoto , Klara Abravaya , Dick Mosser , Gregg T. Williams (auth.) , Milton J. Schlesinger , M. Gabriella Santoro , Enrico Garaci (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1990
ISBN
978-3-642-75817-1, 978-3-642-75815-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-75815-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4744214 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
123\124
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Biochemistrygeneral; Cell Biology

Description

All living organisms are exposed to rapidly changing environmental conditions which may lead to external stress. How organisms cope with stress - especially on the molecular level - is explained in Stress Proteins. Cells react to external stress - where the temperature-induced reaction known as "heat shock response" is the best studied example of stress - by activating special genes and subsequently synthesizing stress proteins. Surprisingly, this stress response is not only similar for all types of stress but even the involved stress proteins are virtually identical in all organisms from prokaryotic to eukaryotic cells, from bacteria to humans. This universality shows that stress proteins are vital for surviving and indicates that these proteins play an essential role in normal cell functions, in cell growth and metabolism. This explains the great interest in stress response research.

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