For bacteria, a small genome means some serious decluttering—even in the ribosome
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 - 07:40
in Biology & Nature
Researchers from Skoltech, Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems have studied the genomes of some 200 strains of bacteria to determine which proteins in the ribosome, part of the key cell machinery, can be safely lost and why. The paper was published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.