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Cells respond to a sudden increase in temperature by increasing their rate of synthesis of a small number of proteins (reviewed in Neidhardt et al., 1984; Schlesinger et al., 1982). This response is called the heat-shock response, and the proteins synthesized in response to heat stress are called the heat-shock proteins (HSPs). Both prokaryotes and eukaryotes have been shown to have a heat-shock response (Schlesinger et al., 1982). At least two of the HSPs are strongly conserved between prokaryotes and eukaryotes (Bardwell and Craig, 1984), suggesting that the response serves a similar function in all organisms.
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Gross, C. et al. (1987). Regulation of the Heat-Shock Response in Escherichia coli. In: Poste, G., Crooke, S.T. (eds) New Frontiers in the Study of Gene Functions. New Horizons in Therapeutics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1845-3_2
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