The story
From chaperone + -ome (suffix indicating the complete whole of a class of substances for a species or an individual), coined by American biochemist Xiaodong Wang and his collaborators in a November 2006 article in Cell: see the quotation.
First known use, by meaning
- from 2006 All the proteins called chaperones that assist in the folding of misfolded proteins in an organism, and other functions.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.