Making the most of what you have: Bacterium fine-tunes proteins for enhanced functionality
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 11:01
in Biology & Nature
The bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae, which causes atypical pneumonia, is helping scientists uncover how cells make the most of limited resources. By measuring all the proteins this bacterium produces, scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and collaborators, have found that the secret is fine-tuning.