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The life of proteins: the good, the mostly good and the ugly

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The health of the proteome in the face of multiple and diverse challenges directly influences the health of the cell and the lifespan of the organism. A recent meeting held in Nara, Japan, provided an exciting platform for scientific exchange and provocative discussions on the biology of proteins and protein homeostasis across multiple scales of analysis and model systems.

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  1. Richard I. Morimoto is in the Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA and at the Rice Institute for Biomedical Research, Evanston, Illinois, USA.,

    Richard I Morimoto

  2. Arnold J. M. Driessen is in the Department of Molecular Microbiology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.,

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  3. Ramanujan S. Hegde is at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.,

    Ramanujan S Hegde

  4. Thomas Langer is at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.,

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Morimoto, R., Driessen, A., Hegde, R. et al. The life of proteins: the good, the mostly good and the ugly. Nat Struct Mol Biol 18, 1–4 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsmb0111-1

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