Mystery E. coli genes essential for survival of many species

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Cancer  Sun, 07/12/2009 - 22:00

(Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Scientists have shown that E. coli -- one of the best known and extensively studied organisms in the world -- remains an enigma that may hold the key to human diseases, such as cancer.

The team has examined the genome sequence of this workhorse of the laboratory and spotted three previously unknown genes that are essential for the survival of E. coli.

One out of the three could be implicated in cancer or developmental abnormalities in humans.

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