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Six steps to destruction

Nature volume 414, pages 498–499 (2001)Cite this article

Cell division relies on the properly timed activation and destruction of certain regulatory proteins. New work shows that many rounds of phosphorylation can help to establish the timing of protein destruction.

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Figure 1: How cells get from the G1 phase to the S phase in their division cycle.

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