Anti-HSF1 antibody

Target information

Function as a stress-inducible and DNA-binding transcription factor that plays a central role in the transcriptional activation of the heat shock response (HSR), leading to the expression of a large class of molecular chaperones heat shock proteins (HSPs) that protect cells from cellular insults’ damage . In unstressed cells, is present in a HSP90-containing multichaperone complex that maintains it in a non-DNA-binding inactivated monomeric form . Upon exposure to heat and other stress stimuli, undergoes homotrimerization and activates HSP gene transcription through binding to site-specific heat shock elements (HSEs) present in the promoter regions of HSP genes . Activation is reversible, and during the attenuation and recovery phase period of the HSR, returns to its unactivated form . Binds to inverted 5′-NGAAN-3′ pentamer DNA sequences . Binds to chromatin at heat shock gene promoters . Plays also several other functions independently of its transcriptional activity. Involved in the repression of Ras-induced transcriptional activation of the c-fos gene in heat-stressed cells . Positively regulates pre-mRNA 3′-end processing and polyadenylation of HSP70 mRNA upon heat-stressed cells in a symplekin (SYMPK)-dependent manner . Plays a role in nuclear export of stress-induced HSP70 mRNA . Plays a role in the regulation of mitotic progression . Plays also a role as a negative regulator of non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) repair activity in a DNA damage-dependent manner . Involved in stress-induced cancer cell proliferation in a IER5-dependent manner .