BacterioFiles 305 - Defensive Disordered Desiccation

Tardigrade
Credit: Bob Goldstein
and Vicky Madden,
CC BY-SA 3.0

This episode: Tardigrades have an interesting way of surviving complete drying out: by producing proteins lacking a stable structure!

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Show notes:
Microbe of the episode: Chandipura vesiculovirus

News item

Journal Paper:
Boothby TC, Tapia H, Brozena AH, Piszkiewicz S, Smith AE, Giovannini I, Rebecchi L, Pielak GJ, Koshland D, Goldstein B. 2017. Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation. Mol Cell 65:975–984.e5.

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