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ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2010

Heat shock factors: integrators of cell stress, development and lifespan.

Malin Akerfelt, Richard I Morimoto, Lea Sistonen

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 733 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
733citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
32.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

733 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,445 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. More than the 'master regulator of cytosolic proteostasis': new roles for HSF1 in promoting tissue health.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026
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  8. Adaptation to heat stress by diversification of the vertebrate heat shock transcription factor family.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2026
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  11. Principles and mechanisms of plant acclimation to heat stress.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  15. Small heat shock proteins and biomolecular condensates.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026
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673 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Malin AkerfeltDepartment of Biosciences, Abo Akademi University, BioCity, 20520 Turku, Finland.
Richard I Morimoto
Lea Sistonen
Åbo Akademi University · FINorthwestern University · US

Funding

REGULATION AND EXPRESSION OF THE HUMAN HSP70 GENE FAMILYR01GM038109 · NIGMS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · PI MORIMOTO, RICHARD I · 1987 to 2013
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM038109
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heat shock factors (HSFs) are essential for all organisms to survive exposures to acute stress. They are best known as inducible transcriptional regulators of genes encoding molecular chaperones and other stress proteins. Four members of the HSF family are also important for normal development and lifespan-enhancing pathways, and the repertoire of HSF targets has thus expanded well beyond the heat shock genes. These unexpected observations have uncovered complex layers of post-translational regulation of HSFs that integrate the metabolic state of the cell with stress biology, and in doing so control fundamental aspects of the health of the proteome and ageing.

Indexed as

AnimalsGrowth and DevelopmentHeat-Shock ProteinsHumansLongevityModels, BiologicalPhylogenyStress, PhysiologicalTranscription FactorsHeat-Shock ProteinsTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID20628411
PMCPMC3402356
OpenAlexW2040359453

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