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Plants exhibit remarkable tolerance to protein translation errors

The precise synthesis of proteins is considered essential for cellular function. Now, a team led by LMU biologists Dr. Benjamin Brandt and Professor Hans-Henning Kunz has demonstrated for the first time that plants can cope with mistranslations during protein synthesis far more robustly than other o...

Plants exhibit remarkable tolerance to protein translation errors
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The precise synthesis of proteins is considered essential for cellular function. Now, a team led by LMU biologists Dr. Benjamin Brandt and Professor Hans-Henning Kunz has demonstrated for the first time that plants can cope with mistranslations during protein synthesis far more robustly than other organisms studied to date.

Originally published at Phys.org

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