Antarctic marine molluscs do have an HSP70 heat shock response

• Published in: Cell Stress and Chaperones
• Main Authors: Clark, Melody S., Fraser, Keiron P.P., Peck, Lloyd S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2008
• Subjects: Biology and Microbiology; Zoology; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; Nacella; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/3954/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/3954/1/Mollusc_HSP.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12192-008-0014-8

The success of any organism depends not only on niche adaptation but also the ability to survive environmental perturbation from homeostasis, a situation generically described as stress. Although species-specific mechanisms to combat “stress” have been described, the production of heat shock protein...