Stress response: anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Anton Gartner; Alper Akay

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.09.036

Stress response: anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Curr Biol. 2013 Nov 18;23(22):R1012-R1014. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.09.036.

Authors

Anton Gartner¹, Alper Akay²

Affiliations

¹ University of Dundee, Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee DD1 5EH, UK. Electronic address: a.gartner@dundee.ac.uk.
² University of Cambridge, Gurdon Institute, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK.

PMID: 24262828
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.09.036

Abstract

A new study shows that DNA damage not only elicits response pathways directly related to DNA repair but also induces a response that extensively overlaps with the pathogen infection pathway and confers resistance to both oxidative stress and heat shock.

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Adaptation, Physiological / physiology*
Animals
Caenorhabditis elegans / physiology*
DNA Damage*
Germ Cells / immunology*
Germ Cells / metabolism*
Immunity, Innate*
Stress, Physiological / immunology*

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