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Type I Chaperonins Are Essential for Cell Viability

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The Hsp60 Chaperonin

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Knock-out of type I chaperonin genes in organisms from bacteria to mice is lethal indicating that these genes are essential and suggesting that variations in these genes possess a high probability to cause deleterious phenotypes.

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Bross, P. (2015). Type I Chaperonins Are Essential for Cell Viability. In: The Hsp60 Chaperonin. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26088-4_13

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