| HSP | Heat-Shock Proteins |
| HAIR | HspR Associated Inverted Repeat |
| CIRCE | Controlling Inverted Repeat of Chaperone Expression |
| bp | Base-pairs |
| Pgro | Promoter region controlling groES-groEL operon transcription |
| Phrc | Promoter region controlling hrcA-grpE-dnaK operon transcription |
| Pcbp | Promoter region controlling cbpA-hspR-helicase operon transcription |
| DNase I | Deoxyribonuclease I |
| STAT-3 | Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 |
| COX-2 | Cyclooxygenase 2 |