Found in mistranslation

(National Centre for Biological Sciences) In a new study, scientists from Deepa Agashe's group at NCBS find that irrespective of which proteins are impacted, there is indeed a benefit to non-specific mistranslation. Postdoctoral fellow Laasya Samhita and project assistant Parth Raval induced different kinds of mistranslation in E. coli, manipulating both the genetic make-up of the cells and the environment in which they lived. They suggest a new hypothesis about why cells tolerate so much mistranslation of proteins.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - Category: Biology Source Type: news