Heat shock transcription factors: Structure and regulation

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 1995, Pages 441-469

  Wu, Carl ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

coiled coil; DNA binding; heat shock response; regulators; transactivation

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN;

GENETIC REGULATION; HEAT SHOCK; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSACTIVATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0029564954     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cb.11.110195.002301     Document Type: Review

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