CHAPERONES

Chaperones

Chaperones

Description

Chaperones comprises of proteins that provide the correct folding of the protein in the cell, the formation of its native structure, as well as transport of synthesized proteins to the site of operation. Part of the chaperone proteins are encoded by genes that are induced by stress. If stress is a heat shock, then the induced proteins called heat shock proteins. It should be a distinction between the chaperones and heat shock proteins, or Heat shock proteins (HSP).Historically, the term "HSP" was also used for the proteins, genes which are active in a cell without additional effects and are induced in ...