April 5, 2019
Researchers in professor Dieter Söll’s group examined the genomes of thousands of bacterial species and found that parasitic bacteria with reduced genomes lack proofreading mechanisms to control accurate expression of the genetic code. How is it that these bacteria survive – and even thrive – with chunks of faulty protein production machinery?
Read more here: http://www.yalescientific.org/2019/04/essential-errors-advantageous-error-prone-dna-translation/