Ribosomes Repair Oxidative Damage (IMAGE)

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Ribosomes Repair Oxidative Damage

Caption

A study in yeast by postdoctoral researcher Yoon-Mo (Jason) Yang, Ph.D. and his advisor, professor Katrin Karbstein, Ph.D., reveals that cells’ protein factories have a system for repairing oxidative stress damage which involves chaperones.

Credit

Stacey DeLoye, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology

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