Al-Fageeh, M.B. and Smales, C.M. (2006) Control and regulation of the cellular responses to cold shock: the responses in yeast and mammalian systems. Biochemical Journal, 397 . pp. 247-259. ISSN 0264-6021.
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Abstract
Although the cold-shock response has now been studied in a number of different organisms for several decades, it is only in the last few years that we have begun to understand the molecular mechanisms that govern adaptation to cold stress. Notably, all organisms from prokaryotes to plants and higher eukaryotes respond to cold shock in a comparatively similar manner. The general response of cells to cold stress is the elite and rapid overexpression of a small group of proteins, the so-called CSPs (cold-shock proteins). The most well characterized CSP is CspA, the major CSP expressed in Escherichia coli upon temperature downshift. More recently, a number of reports have shown that exposing yeast or mammalian cells to sub-physiological temperatures (< 30 or < 37 degrees C respectively) invokes a co-ordinated cellular response involving modulation of transcription, translation, metabolism, the cell cycle and the cell cytoskeleton. In the present review, we summarize the regulation and role of coldshock genes and proteins in the adaptive response upon decreased temperature with particular reference to yeast and in vitro cultured mammalian cells. Finally, we present an integrated model for the co-ordinated responses required to maintain the viability and integrity of mammalian cells upon mild hypothermic cold shock.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional information: | Part 2 |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | cellular response; cold-shock protein; cold-shock response; control of gene expression; sub-physiological temperature; yeast |
| Subjects: | Q Science |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Biosciences |
| Depositing User: | Mark Smales |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Sep 2008 07:15 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Mar 2012 10:51 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/6225 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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