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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437620903321

Titolo

The chaperonopathies : diseases with defective molecular chaperones / / Alberto J.L. Macario, Everly Conway de Macario, Francesco Cappello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

94-007-4667-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (116 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, , 2211-9353

Disciplina

572.633

Soggetti

Molecular chaperones

Diseases - Molecular

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 health care professionals are unfamiliar with chaperonopathies. Clinicians do not look for them because they are unaware of them. Pathologists and clinical biochemists are unprepared to test specimens to detect chaperonopathies. Despite the large amount of information available in the literature, textbooks tend to ignore chaperonopathies. Because of the lack of systematic information in textbooks and courses, chaperonopathies are invisible to practitioners and clinical researchers. This book aims to correct this situation by providing pertinent information in an orderly manner so as to prompt the reader to look for chaperonopathies in patients and seek more information about them. The book serves as an alert signal and as a primer.