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Cover of Wetware

Wetware

Kind
Book
Date
2009
Publisher
Yale University Press
Retrieved
Dec 24, 2013
ISBN
UL7xW_FL_h

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The Signaling Pathway

In a typical signaling pathway, proteins are continually being modified and demodified. Kinases and phosphatases work ceaselessly like ants in a nest, adding phosphate groups to proteins and removing them again. It seems a pointless exercise, especially when you consider that each cycle of addition and removal costs…