holdases

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A form of holdase — A particular kind of molecular chaperone that assists the non-covalent folding of proteins in an ATP-dependent manner. Holdases bind to protein folding intermediates to prevent their aggregation but without directly refolding them.

Scrabble 12

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noun
  1. pluralplural of holdase

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