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

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  • 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

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