Medical Definition of Heat-shock response element
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| The nucleotide sequence, CNNGAANNTCCNG, which is in the promoter region of the heat-shock genes. When the animal is exposed to certain types of stress such as a sudden rise in temperature, the first thing that happens to activate these genes is the binding of the HSE by a transcriptional enhancer protein.
(09 Oct 1997)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Heat-shock Response Element
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