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The stressful influence of microbes

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An investigation into cellular stress responses reveals how cell compartments called mitochondria use information about the surrounding metabolites and microorganisms to protect themselves from damage. See Letter p.406

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Figure 1: Cellular and bacterial metabolites influence mitochondrial behaviour.

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  1. Suzanne Wolff and Andrew Dillin are in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-3200, USA.,

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