English Explanatory Dictionary

holdase

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

holdase holdases

Etymology

From hold + -ase?

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