Chaperone
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Chaperone may refer to:
- Chaperone (social), or chaperon, an adult who supervises one or more unmarried men or women during social occasions
- Chaperone (clinical), a person whose has a role to witness both a patient and a medical practitioner
[edit] Biology
- Chaperone (protein), a protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding in molecular biology
- Co-chaperone, a protein that assists a chaperone in protein folding and other functions
- Pharmacological chaperone, a small molecule which stabilizes the correct folding of a protein resulting in a recovery of function lost due to mutation, can be used for medical treatment
[edit] See also
- Chaperon (headgear), a form of hood or versatile hat worn in Western Europe in the Middle Ages
- The Chaperone (Seinfeld episode), is the 87th episode of NBC sitcom, Seinfeld, first broadcast in 1994
- The Chaperone, a 1999 episode of SpongeBob SquarePants
- The Drowsy Chaperone, a musical within a comedy