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Xaperones.com produces crystallization chaperones that bind to and facilitate the crystallization of your protein of interest

Chaperone:

  1. Social: an adult who supervises one or more unmarried men or women during social occasions
  2. Headgear: a form of hood or versatile hat worn in Western Europe in the Middle Ages
  3. Protein: a protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding in molecular biology
  4. X-ray crystallography: a protein that assists another protein to crystallize

Xaperone:

A nanobody that assists another protein to crystallize in chaperone-assisted X-ray crystallography

 

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