heat shock protein (English, noun)
expansion: heat shock protein (plural heat shock proteins)
Senses:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of proteins produced when an organism undergoes heat stress or stress, which is then used to bind to heat intolerant proteins to stabilize their structures, and initiate some of the organism's stress responses.
Forms:
form: heat shock proteins
tags: plural