Molecular Chaperones in Health and Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Starke, K. (Editor), Gaestel, Matthias (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 172
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Pharmacology.; Medical biochemistry.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Medical Biochemistry.; Cell Biology.

Molecular chaperones are involved in a wide variety of essential cellular processes in living cells. A subset of molecular chaperones have been initially described as heat shock proteins protecting cells from stress damage by keeping cellular proteins in a folding competent state and preventing them...