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heat-shock protein

n :  any of a group of proteins that were orig. isolated from certain bacteria exposed to heat, that occur esp. in cells subjected to heat stress, that keep the proteins in the cell from unraveling, and that are either identical with or comprise a class of molecular chaperones .
 
 

 
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