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. 2018 Jan 18;69(2):163-164.
doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2017.12.033.

No Excess Baggage: New Life Starts with a Clean Slate

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No Excess Baggage: New Life Starts with a Clean Slate

Netta Shemesh et al. Mol Cell. .
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A new mechanism for clearing protein damage from maturing oocytes has been described in a recent study by Bohnert and Kenyon (2017), who demonstrated that sperm-secreted hormones activate a vascular H+-ATPase pump that acidifies lysosomes and thus restores protein homeostasis.

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