Lighting up a protein called Spy
Friday, April 1, 2011 - 04:50
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- James Bond frequently has to undertake spectacular feats to protect Queen and country against utter destruction under insurmountable odds. But what happens when the homeland is a bacterial cell, and the danger comes from the insurmountable odds of making large amounts of a complex molecule? You call in a sleeper agent a protein called Spy.