Even worse, he says, when their surroundings change,
stress granules switch from being hydrogels to a different
type of structure, called liquid droplets, the same way hair gel might dissolve in water if you heat it up.
«Cells respond to different
types of stress by inhibition
of protein synthesis and subsequent assembly
of stress granules (SGs), cytoplasmic aggregates that contain stalled translation preinitiation complexes.