Unexpected signaling role for foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide in cell response to protein misfolding
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 12:02
in Biology & Nature
Something rotten never smelled so sweet. This is what members of a team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) are telling one another as they discuss a new finding they did not expect to make. They have discovered that hydrogen sulfide (H2S) the flammable, highly toxic gas that we usually associate with the smell of rotten eggs in landfills and sewers plays an important role in the regulation of a signaling pathway implicated in biological malfunctions linked to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, among others.
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