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Protein folding is a high-stakes process, with cell dysfunction and death being the unforgiving penalties for failure. Work in bacteria hints that organisms manage this process beyond the boundaries of the cytoplasm — and even the cell.

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  1. Evan T. Powers is in the Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.,

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  2. William E. Balch is in the Department of Cell Biology, Department of Chemical Physiology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.,

    William E. Balch

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Powers, E., Balch, W. Protection from the outside. Nature 471, 42–43 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/471042a

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