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Chaperone vs Nucleoplasmin - What's the difference?

chaperone | nucleoplasmin |

As nouns the difference between chaperone and nucleoplasmin

is that chaperone is an older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman while nucleoplasmin is (protein) a chaperone protein that functions in the building of nucleosomes.

As a verb chaperone

is to act as a chaperone.

chaperone

Noun

(en noun)
  • An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
  • (biology) A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
  • Derived terms

    * chaperoneship * cochaperone

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • to act as a chaperone
  • * 2006 , The New Yorker, 17 April 2006, page 27.
  • 'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'

    See also

    *

    nucleoplasmin

    English

    Noun

  • (protein) A chaperone protein that functions in the building of nucleosomes