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It is now well established that all living organisms, from bacteria to higher plants and animals, when exposed to non-lethal heat-shock conditions, respond by a drastic alteration of the protein synthesis pattern and the appearance of a new set of proteins termed heat-shock proteins (HSPs). The shut-down of normal protein synthesis results from translational regulation and the synthesis of HSPs begins as a result of the induction of transcription of a new set of mRNAs.
In the case of plant systems, beginning with the report on the occurrence of heat-shock response in the cultured cells of tobacco and soybean (1) there is a growing interest in the study of HSPs in plants. During the last eight years, heat-shock response has been studied in a variety of plant species (2) including unicellular green alga (3) and cyanobacterium (4). In vascular plants, HSPs fall into two size-classes: a high molecular mass group (60–110 kDa) and a complex group of polypeptides with molecular weight less than 30 kDa.
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Gnanam, A., Krishnasamy, S., Mannan, R.M. (1989). Heat-shock Proteins Associated with Chloroplasts. In: Singhal, G.S., Barber, J., Dilley, R.A., Govindjee, Haselkorn, R., Mohanty, P. (eds) Photosynthesis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74221-7_10
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