Start signal for transcription of stressed genes identified
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 07:31
in Biology & Nature
What happens when a cell is stressed? In their latest study, Christian Seiser and his team at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories (MFPL) of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna addressed this question. They identified which genes of the cell are activated under stress, showed that more than half of these genes share the same hallmark and described the molecular mechanism through which it starts the transcription of stress-activated genes. Their results could help to develop therapeutics to treat stress-related disease and have been published in the renowned journal Genome Research.