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Nature Medicine 13, 1415 - 1417 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm1207-1415

Putting the heat on cancer

Paul Workman1 & Emmanuel de Billy1

  1. Paul Workman and Emmanuel de Billy are in the Signal Transduction and Molecular Pharmacology Team, Cancer Research UK Centre for Cancer Therapeutics, The Institute of Cancer Research, Haddow Laboratories, 15 Cotswold Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5NG, UK e-mail: paul.workman@icr.ac.uk


Two studies highlight the role of the heat shock response in initiating and maintaining cancer.


The heat shock response is an ancient and evolutionarily conserved mechanism orchestrated by the transcription factor heat shock factor-1 (HSF1). The main job of HSF1 is to regulate the induction of molecular chaperones and other heat shock proteins—permitting cell survival under stressful, protein-damaging conditions.

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