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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 67, Issue 18, Pages 3131-3137Publisher
SPRINGER BASEL AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-010-0417-4
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Asymmetric division; Bacterial aging; Protein aggregates; Conditional senescence; Stationary phase
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Aging-defined as the progressive impairment of an organism's functional capacity, resulting from deleterious changes in cells, organs, and biological systems-is one of the most fundamental features of Eukaryotes, from humans to the unicellular budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. It has recently been reported that this may also be the case for certain (if not all) types of bacteria. In this paper, the current view on the mechanistic background and evolutionary significance of bacterial kind of aging is presented, with particular emphasis on the role of asymmetric cell division, the characteristics of stationary growth phase, and the role of oxidative protein damage.
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