Abstract

Cells respond to an increase in temperature by incucing the synthesis of the heat shock proteins, which are a small set of evolutionarily conserved proteins. We review the evidence leading us to suggest that the free pool of one of these proteins, hsp70, serves as a cellular thermometer that regulates the expression of all heat shock proteins.

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