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The little devil of death

There are 'roadblocks' at several points in the signalling pathways that control programmed cell death. When the cell needs to die, these roadblocks must be removed, and a vertebrate protein that removes one such block has now been identified.

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Figure 1: Fine-tuning cell death in mammalian cells.

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De Laurenzi, V., Melino, G. The little devil of death. Nature 406, 135–136 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/35018190

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