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  2. Heat shock response - Wikipedia

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    Heat shock proteins induced by the HSR can help prevent protein aggregation that is associated with common neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Huntington's, or Parkinson's disease. [8] The diagram depicts actions taken when a stress is introduced to the cell. Stress will induce HSF-1 and cause proteins to misfold.

  3. Proteostasis - Wikipedia

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    Proteostasis is the dynamic regulation of a balanced, functional proteome.The proteostasis network includes competing and integrated biological pathways within cells that control the biogenesis, folding, trafficking, and degradation of proteins present within and outside the cell.

  4. Protein folding - Wikipedia

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    Protein before and after folding Results of protein folding. Protein folding is the physical process by which a protein, after synthesis by a ribosome as a linear chain of amino acids, changes from an unstable random coil into a more ordered three-dimensional structure. This structure permits the protein to become biologically functional. [1]

  5. Chaperone (protein) - Wikipedia

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    Bulk biochemical measurements have informed us on the protein folding efficiency, and prevention of aggregation when chaperones are present during protein folding. Recent advances in single-molecule analysis [ 3 ] have brought insights into structural heterogeneity of chaperones, folding intermediates and affinity of chaperones for unstructured ...

  6. Heat shock protein - Wikipedia

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    Several heat shock proteins function as intra-cellular chaperones for other proteins. They play an important role in proteinprotein interactions such as folding and assisting in the establishment of proper protein conformation (shape) and prevention of unwanted protein aggregation. By helping to stabilize partially unfolded proteins, HSPs ...

  7. Chaperonin - Wikipedia

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    They prevent misfolding of proteins during stressful situations such as high heat, by assisting protein folding. HSP60 belong to a large class of molecules that assist protein folding, called molecular chaperones. [2] [3] Newly made proteins usually must fold from a linear chain of amino acids into a three-dimensional tertiary structure. The ...

  8. Protein aggregation - Wikipedia

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    Misfolded proteins can form protein aggregates or amyloid fibrils, get degraded, or refold back to its native structure. In molecular biology, protein aggregation is a phenomenon in which intrinsically-disordered or mis-folded proteins aggregate (i.e., accumulate and clump together) either intra- or extracellularly.

  9. Unfolded protein response - Wikipedia

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    The term protein folding incorporates all the processes involved in the production of a protein after the nascent polypeptides have become synthesized by the ribosomes.The proteins destined to be secreted or sorted to other cell organelles carry an N-terminal signal sequence that will interact with a signal recognition particle (SRP).