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Aiding in Folding: Molecular Chaperones and Chaperonins

  • Buxbaum E
Springer International Publishing, (2015), 343-359
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19920-7_15
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Abstract

Molecular chaperones bind reversibly to unfolded and misfolded proteins, thereby preventing their aggregation. Molecular chaperonins can actively unfold misfolded proteins, using metabolic energy. Neither chaperones nor chaperonins actively fold proteins. The 70 and...

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Buxbaum, E. (2015). Aiding in Folding: Molecular Chaperones and Chaperonins. In Fundamentals of Protein Structure and Function (pp. 343–359). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19920-7_15

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