Chaperone or Chaperon may refer to: * Chaperone (social) or chaperon, a person who accompanies or supervises young people on social occasions * Chaperone (clinical), a person who acts as a witness during a medical examination or procedure *

Chaperon (headgear) A chaperon ( or ; Middle French: ''chaperon'') was a form of hood or, later, highly versatile hat worn in all parts of Western Europe in the Middle Ages. Initially a utilitarian garment, it first grew a long partly decorative tail behind called ...

, a form of hood or hat worn in Western Europe in the Middle Ages

Biology

Chaperone (protein) In molecular biology, molecular chaperones are proteins that assist the conformational folding or unfolding of large proteins or macromolecular protein complexes. There are a number of classes of molecular chaperones, all of which function to assi ...

, a protein that assists non-covalent folding/unfolding * Co-chaperone, a protein that assists a chaperone in protein folding and other functions * Pharmacological chaperone, a molecule which stabilizes protein folding, used in treatment for loss of function * Chaperone-mediated autophagy, a selective type of autophagy *

MEAI MEAI (5-methoxy-2-aminoindane or 5-MeO-AI or Chaperon) belongs to the indane family of molecules. Its molecular structure was first mentioned implicitly in a markush structure schema appearing in a patent from 1998. It was later explicitly and pha ...

or "Chaperon", a pharmaceutical drug used as a safer alternative to alcohol

People

* Bob Chaperon (born 1958), a retired Canadian snooker and billiards player *

Nicolas Chaperon Nicolas Chaperon (bapt. 19 October 1612, in Châteaudun – 1656 in Lyon) was a French painter, draughtsman and engraver, a student in Paris of Simon Vouet whose style he adopted before he was further matured by his stay in Rome (1642–51) in ...

(died 1656), a French painter, draughtsman and engraver * Philippe Chaperon (1823–1907), a French scenographer

Biology

People

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