The Chaperonopathies Diseases with Defective Molecular Chaperones

Memory lapses and occasional incoherent behavior, or intestinal cramps with diarrhea, or protracted cough with low fever, or cardiovascular syndromes, or changes in the pattern of movement of the lower limps, can be signs of an incipient chaperonopathy. Yet many physicians do not know this. Most hea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Macario, Alberto J.L., Conway de Macario, Everly (Author), Cappello, Francesco (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
Series:SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Overview and book plan
  • Chaperones: General characteristics and classifications
  • The chaperonopathies: classification, mechanisms, structural features
  • Structural and hereditary chaperonopathies: mutation
  • Other genetic chaperonopathies
  • Acquired chaperonopathies
  • Other types of chaperonopathies
  • Impact of chaperonopathies in protein homeostasis and beyond
  • Extracellular chaperones