Encodes a cytosolic small heat shock protein with chaperone activity that is induced by heat and osmotic stress and is also expressed late in seed development.
Computational Description
heat shock protein 17.6A (HSP17.6A); FUNCTIONS IN: unfolded protein binding; INVOLVED IN: protein folding, response to high light intensity, response to hydrogen peroxide, response to heat, hyperosmotic response; LOCATED IN: cytosol; EXPRESSED IN: 10 plant structures; EXPRESSED DURING: M germinated pollen stage, 4 anthesis, C globular stage, petal differentiation and expansion stage; CONTAINS InterPro DOMAIN/s: Heat shock protein Hsp20 (InterPro:IPR002068), HSP20-like chaperone (InterPro:IPR008978); BEST Arabidopsis thaliana protein match is: 17.6 kDa class II heat shock protein (TAIR:AT5G12020.1); Has 1807 Blast hits to 1807 proteins in 277 species: Archae - 0; Bacteria - 0; Metazoa - 736; Fungi - 347; Plants - 385; Viruses - 0; Other Eukaryotes - 339 (source: NCBI BLink).