Which of the following is the group of proteins which are essential for the ‘folding’ of other proteins in a cell?
Correct Answer: Chaperones
Description: Some proteins need to interact with various polypeptides to attain correct folded shapes. These helper peptides are called molecular chaperones. Molecular chaperones comprise a great variety of proteins that are essential for protein binding and translocation across cellular compaments, assembling multi-protein complexes, preventing aggregation, and directing mis-folded and sho-lived proteins to degradation by the proteosome. Ref: Harper's Biochemistry 26th Edition, Pages 507-508 ; Molecular Chaperones by Reginald John Ellis, R. A. Laskey, George H. Lorimer, 1993
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