title: How infidelity creates a sticky situation.
abstract: Errors in translation cause cytotoxic protein misfolding and aggregation. In this issue, Ling et al. (2012) show that scavenging or suppression of reactive oxygen species in E. coli reduces the cellular costs of error-induced aggregation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. dadrummond@uchicago.edu
authors.forename: D Allan
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Drummond