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HEATSTER: A Database and Web Server for Identification and Classification of Heat Stress Transcription Factors in
Jannik Berz1, Stefan Simm1,2, Sebastian Schuster3
1Department of Biosciences, Molecular Cell Biology of Plants, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Abstract:
Heat stress transcription factors (HSFs) regulate transcriptional response to a large number of environmental influences, such as temperature fluctuations and chemical compound applications. Plant HSFs represent a large and diverse gene family. The HSF members vary substantially both in gene expression patterns and molecular functions. HEATSTER is a web resource for mining, annotating, and analyzing members of the different classes of HSFs in plants. A web-interface allows the identification and class assignment of HSFs, intuitive searches in the database and visualization of conserved motifs, and domains to classify novel HSFs.
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