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An rRNA variant to deal with stress

Nature Microbiology volume 4, pages 382–383 (2019)Cite this article

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Bacteria have previously been assumed to cope with environmental stress by tuning their total number of active ribosomes. Instead, a study in this issue of Nature Microbiology shows that from a heterogeneous pool of ribosomes, Vibrio vulnificus uses ribosomes with a particular ribosomal RNA variant to translate upregulated stress response mRNAs.

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Fig. 1: Stress ribosomes to the rescue: bacterial translation under stress.

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  1. Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Kathrin Leppek & Maria Barna

  2. Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Kathrin Leppek & Maria Barna

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Leppek, K., Barna, M. An rRNA variant to deal with stress. Nat Microbiol 4, 382–383 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-019-0396-7

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