'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'.
An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman
A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions
A protein that assists the correct non-covalent assembly of folding proteins in vivo; chaperones do not themselves form part of the structures they help to assemble
A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm
An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior