| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Heat-Shock Proteins | Health | Proteins which are synthesized in eukaryotic organisms and bacteria in response to hyperthermia and other environmental stresses. They increase thermal tolerance and perform functions essential to cell survival under these conditions. (references) | |
| Heat-Shock Proteins 70 | Health | A class of molecular chaperones found in both prokaryotes and in several compartments of eukaryotic cells. There is evidence that these proteins can interact with polypeptides during a variety of assembly processes in such a way as to prevent the formation of nonfunctional structures. (references) | |
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