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Ch.3 - Protein Structure and Function

Chapter 3, Problem 6

Explain how molecular chaperones facilitate protein folding in many different polypeptides, each with their own specific shape.

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Hello everyone. And in today's video we have a very short problem. So let's jump straight into it. So we need to identify the proteins that assist other proteins in reforming their shape. So proteins that assist other proteins in reforming their shape are called chaperones. So this is going to be a correct answer choice among or given answer choices. However, let's still look over all the possible answer choices. So we can identify if there's any other correct ones. So let's look over answer choice B This ballast eric proteins or proteins or just molecules that are involved in regulation. So they are called defectors and they will help regulate the activity of other enzymes in order to control it. This is not going to help proteins reform their shapes are going to cancel this out and this leaves those with answer choice A hit shock proteins. These heat shock proteins are also part of the family or jews are related to these chaperone proteins and they have a role in re folding denature ring. Re folding denature ring and degrading other proteins. So they have a lot of just activity that has to do with the shape of other proteins. So this is also going to be a correct answer choice since we have answer choices A and C. Correct. We're going to select answer choice D. Both and see as our final answer. I really hope this video helped you and I hope to see you on the next one