Description: DnaKistheprokaryoticanalogueofeukaryoticHsp70.Heatshockproteinsappliestoagroupofproteinsthatassistintheassembly,folding,andtranslocationofotherproteins.Inaddition,theyprotectthecellagainstheatinjuryorotherformsofstress.Twofamiliesofmolecularchaperoneshavebeenidentified.ThemembersoftheHsp70family(DnaK/DnaJ/GrpE)bindtothegrowingpolypeptidechainandpreventitsprematurefolding.Thechaperoninfamily(GroELandGroES)assistsincorrectfoldingwhenthecompletepolypeptidechainisformedandistransportedintothecytosolormitochondria.AllthemajorheatshockproteinshelptosuppressirreversIBLeunfoldingreactions. 
RecommendedStorageCondition: -20°C
Reference: Woodcock,D.M.,Crowther,D.M.,Doherty,J.,Jefferson,S.,DeCruz,E.,Noyer-Weidner,M.,Smith,S.S.,Michael,M.Z.,andGraham,M.W.,Nucl.AcidsRes.(1989)17,3469-3478
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