Cell aging preserves cellular immortality in the presence of lethal levels of damage.

Cellular aging, a progressive functional decline driven by damage accumulation, often culminates in the mortality of a cell lineage. Certain lineages, however, are able to sustain long-lasting immortality, as prominently exemplified by stem cells. Here, we show that Escherichia coli cell lineages ex...

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Main Authors: Audrey Menegaz Proenca, Camilla Ulla Rang, Andrew Qiu, Chao Shi, Lin Chao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-05-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000266