Categories: Protein pages needing a picture | Genes on chromosome 2 | Protein stubs Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a huge controlled vocabulary (or metadata system) for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences. ... In biology, chaperones are proteins whose function is to assist other proteins in achieving proper folding. ... Heat shock proteins (HSP) are a group of proteins whose expression is increased when the cells are exposed to elevated temperatures. ... // Protein folding A proportion of all newly-made proteins require assistance to convert from a linear chain of amino acids to a functional three-dimensional entity. ... Hsp27 is a chaperone of the sHsp – small heat shock protein - group among ubiquitin, α-crystallin, Hsp20 and others. ... Heat shock protein 47 is a serpin which serves as a chaperone for collagen. ... GroEL is a protein chaperone required for the proper folding of many proteins in prokaryotes. ... Hsp70 is a family of heat shock proteins including HSP70 (also known as Hsp72), Bip and the prokaryotic protein DnaK with an approximate molecular weight of 70 kDa. ... Hsc70 is a heat shock protein. ... Hsp90 (heat shock protein 90) is a molecular chaperone and is one of the most abundant proteins in unstressed cells. ... Alpha crystallin is a water-soluble structural protein found in the lens of the eye. ... Clusterin is a disulfide-linked heterodimeric protein associated with the clearance of cellular debris and apoptosis. ...