Activation of heat shock gene transcription by heat shock factor 1 involves oligomerization, acquisition of DNA-binding activity, and nuclear localization and can occur in the absence of stress

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 1392-1407

  Sarge, Kevin D ^a   Murphy, Shawn P ^a   Morimoto, Richard I ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA;

HEAT SHOCK FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAT STROKE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMAN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0027461364     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.13.3.1392     Document Type: Article

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