The chaperone Hsc70 (green) helps keep SNAP-25 in the proper shape so that it can help form the SNARE complex, enabling neurotransmission. AMHERST, Mass. – A team of researchers from the ...

The team dug deeper and observed not only that Hsc70 help in forming SNARE, it actually combines with SNAP-25 into a protein complex. That complex is what keeps SNAP-25 in the correct form for SNARE.