Plural of chaperone

Forms of chaperone

Chaperones in a sentence

• Her granddaughter and great-granddaughter went with us as chaperones.2012, Brenda Jackson, Texas Wild & Beyond Temptation, page 47. From the entry grand
• Many cells make heat-shock proteins when they get uncomfortably warm, which can act as molecular chaperones that guide denatured proteins back to their folded state.2025, Philip Ball, “Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works. Tiny specks called biomolecular…. From the entry gloppy
• Molecular chaperones of the heat shock protein (Hsp) family are prominent members of the exportome, including a number of Hsp40s and a Hsp70.2016 February 5, “The Malarial Exported PFA0660w Is an Hsp40 Co-Chaperone of PfHsp70-x”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry exportome
• As a part of that network, holdase chaperones are able to communicate with other chaperones in the network, to achieve refolding of misfolded clients.2015 July 28, Ohad Suss, Dana Reichmann, “Protein plasticity underlines activation and function of ATP-independent chaperones”, in…. From the entry holdase

Meaning of chaperone

1. noun An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
2. noun 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.
3. noun An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.

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Questions about the plural of chaperone

What is the plural of chaperone?

The plural of chaperone is chaperones.

Is chaperone countable?

Chaperone is a countable noun.