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A recent “Chem” paper by the Piel group (IMB) in collaboration with the Chekan (UNC Greensboro) and Gugger groups (Institut Pasteur) reports a new and unusually complex steroid-like post-translational modification.
An organism as a tenant in another - in biology, this often works quite well. ETH researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish.