Heat shock proteins in insects.
Author of the article:ZHANG Yong-Qiang,WANG Jin-Jun,DING Wei,ZHAO Zhi-Mo
Author's Workplace:(College of Plant Protection, Southwest Agricultural University, Chongqing 400716,China)
Key Words:HSPs; stresses; molecular chaperone
Abstract:All organisms respond to elevated temperatures and many other stresses with the production of a defined set of proteins called heat shock proteins(HSPs).A lthough HSPs were first characterized because their expression increased in resp onse to elevated t