Bent out of shape: Stressed bacteria accumulate misfolded proteins and stop growing
Friday, August 16, 2013 - 08:01
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —Whether a man, a mouse or a microbe, stress is bad for you. Experiments in bacteria by molecular biologists in Peter Chien's lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with others at MIT, have uncovered the mechanism that translates stress, such as exposure to extreme temperature, into blocked cell growth.