What does HSP stand for?

Heat-Shock Protein

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Heat-shock protein hsp90 governs the activity of pp60v-src kinase.

A comparison of Hsp90[alpha] and Hsp90[beta] interactions with ...

When that happens, heat-shock proteins can keep a cell healthy by either fixing or expelling damaged cellular components.

Aiding and abetting: a longevity gene also promotes cancer

Microbial cells in which heat-shock proteins are synthesized acquire additional tolerance to a second heat challenge that would normally be lethal to them.

Environmental stresses have an impact on bacteria

She found that the immune system in one strain of diabetic mice produced antibodies to their own heat-shock protein 60.

Protein fragment halts type I diabetes

Microbial cells in which heat-shock proteins are synthesized acquire additional thermal tolerance to a second heat challenge that would normally be lethal to them.

Environmental stresses have an impact on bacteria

When a virus infects a cell, the cell often turns on genes for molecules known as heat-shock proteins.

Viruses depend on shocking proteins

Microbial cells in which heat-shock proteins are synthesized acquire enhanced thermal tolerance to a second heat challenge that would normally be lethal to them.

Environmental stresses have an impact on bacteria

Candido's team had engineered strains of the nematode to reveal production of the heat-shock protein, for instance, by fluorescing.

Two studies offer some cell-phone cautions