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Nature Cell Biology 7, 1054–1055 (1 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/ncb1105-1054
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Cells must often reprogramme gene expression extremely rapidly in response to stress. A well-known paradigm for this method of gene control is the heat-shock response in eukaryotes, where RNA polymerase is poised at specific promoters to start making heat-shock protein mRNAs at a moment's notice.
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