Chronic stress caused by changing temperatures, Alzheimer’s disease or other diseases and forces is an unavoidable part of life. At the cellular level, the “first responders” to stress are known as molecular chaperones. Yet just as a major health crisis may be more than a team of paramedics can handle, a new Florida Tech study examining chronic stress in the Caenorhabditis elegans roundworm shows that major stress events overwhelm molecular chaperones, leading to a variety of problems, including a defect in how proteins are transported between cells.
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Source: Phys.org