Frugal microbes reduce the cost of proteins

Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 10:42 in Biology & Nature

Bacteria tend to be more frugal when constructing proteins for use outside of the cell versus internally, saving their energy for synthesising compounds that can be recycled, according to research published in the current issue of the online journal mBio...

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