chaperome

Meaning

Noun

All the proteins called chaperones that assist in the folding of misfolded proteins in an organism, and other functions.

Origin

From chaperone + -ome, coined by American biochemist Xiaodong Wang and his collaborators in a November 2006 article in Cell: see the quotation.

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