Conservation of a stress response: Human heat shock transcription factors functionally substitute for yeast HSF

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 6466-6477

  Liu, Xiao Dong ^a   Liu, Phillip C C ^a   Santoro, Nicholas ^a   Thiele, Dennis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat shock; HSF; Human; Transcription; Yeast

Indexed keywords

DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSOL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; METALLOTHIONEIN; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN HYBRIDIZATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030728446     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.21.6466     Document Type: Article

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