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 who 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

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