Molecular Chaperones §

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Relations §

• Cellular Stress Response: Molecular chaperones are key components of the cellular stress response, helping cells cope with various stressors that can disrupt protein folding.
• Fold Resistance: Molecular chaperones are proteins that assist in the proper folding of other proteins, helping to increase their fold resistance and prevent misfolding.
• Misfolding: Molecular chaperones are proteins that assist in the proper folding and refolding of other proteins, helping to prevent misfolding and aggregation.
• Protein Folding: Molecular chaperones assist in the proper folding of proteins into their functional three-dimensional structures.
• Molecular Chaperone Machinery: Molecular chaperones work together in a coordinated machinery to facilitate protein folding and prevent aggregation.
• Protein Aggregation: Molecular chaperones can bind to misfolded proteins and prevent their aggregation, which is implicated in various neurodegenerative diseases.
• Protein Quality Control: Molecular chaperones are essential components of the protein quality control system, which ensures the proper folding and degradation of proteins.
• Neurodegenerative Diseases: Dysfunction of molecular chaperones and protein misfolding are associated with the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
• Protein Misfolding: Molecular chaperones help prevent protein misfolding, which can lead to the formation of toxic protein aggregates.
• Proteostasis: Molecular chaperones play a crucial role in maintaining proteostasis, the balance between protein synthesis, folding, and degradation.
• Heat Shock Proteins: Many molecular chaperones belong to the family of heat shock proteins, which are induced in response to cellular stress.
• Protein Trafficking: Molecular chaperones assist in the proper trafficking and localization of proteins within the cell.
• Chaperone Proteins: Molecular chaperones are a class of chaperone proteins that assist in protein folding and prevent aggregation.