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Published online 13 November 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1228
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How does bleach bleach?
The ubiquitous disinfectant may kill bacteria by unfolding their proteins.
It is the gold standard of sanitation, and a single drop is often all it takes to render a litre of water bacteria-free and safe to drink. Yet the molecular tricks behind bleach's fearsome bacteria-fighting power have not been fully worked out.
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this could be a possible link research in initiating the role of this protein as possible recovery protein to those healthy cells destroyed by chemotherapy although much molecular studies must be done to not include the unwanted ones(cancer cells)...