Zooming in on a Molecular Chaperone (VIDEO)

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This video clip shows how molecular chaperones prevent aggregation and misfolding of proteins. This video relates to a paper that appeared in May 9, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Tomohide Saio at Rutgers University in Piscataway, N.J., and colleagues was titled, "Structural Basis for Protein Antiaggregation Activity of the Trigger Factor Chaperone."

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[Credit: Tomohide Saio and Charalampos Kalodimos]

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